People who were brought up in Boquete, they pluck the mountain guava from from trees and eat them like apples. They smell the perfume and stop in their tracks looking for the tree close by. They talk about guava jelly like we talk about black current jam in the UK or cranberry sauce in the US.
I have not been able to share this enthusiasm and find the guava experience highly over-rated. The flavor and the smell never being enough to get over the fact that the guava plays host to unprecedented numbers of fruit flies and maggots.
Today, my guava world was changed for ever. I was introduced to a new variety we have planted on the farm. The fruit looks like yellow globes and the smell is close to heaven on this earth. The scent is more guava than guava. A wonderful fragrant perfume with a flesh that tastes similar to passion fruit.
I have not been able to share this enthusiasm and find the guava experience highly over-rated. The flavor and the smell never being enough to get over the fact that the guava plays host to unprecedented numbers of fruit flies and maggots.
Today, my guava world was changed for ever. I was introduced to a new variety we have planted on the farm. The fruit looks like yellow globes and the smell is close to heaven on this earth. The scent is more guava than guava. A wonderful fragrant perfume with a flesh that tastes similar to passion fruit.
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