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Unique black roses bloom with arrival of spring in Turkey’s Halfeti
Unique black roses bloom with arrival of spring in Turkey’s Halfeti
Black roses, also known as “karagül” in Turkish, a unique rose that only grows in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa’s Halfeti district in the world, are blooming with arrival of spring.
But this year, only locals can see the beauty of the black rose due to COVID-19 measures.
However, the production of karagül, which attracts many local and foreign tourists for its unique color and smell, has neared extinction because of the changing ecological balance in Halfeti, which has been left underwater due to the Birecik Dam.
Now grown in glass greenhouses, the Halfeti Regional Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry has started to expand the black rose cultivation areas.
Director Mehmet Akan Akmeşe said that they are trying to expand the land rose cultivation areas.
He stated that they have established a new greenhouse with a size of 500 square meters.
“Our goal is to grow, spread and produce the black rose, which is unique to Halfeti. In these months, they bloom in black, and those that bloom after a period get a velvety color. We cut the black seeds in the period when they turn black and offer them to our visitors as a gift,” he said.
Karagül, which is also known as the “Arab bride” or “Arab beauty,” first blooms red and then turns black as the summer season approaches.
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