Scientifically, black pigmentation in plants is extremely rare, if not impossible. It is easy to deduce that the story may be a hoax, some consider a tourism marketing stunt. And it doesn’t help that when further researched, it will be found that the village of Halfeti is actually now submerged in water due to flooding when a dam broke a couple of years ago. The story sounds suspicious, especially since when one looks up the black rose of Halfeti online, most results show images of black roses looking heavily edited. This is because the black hue is said to be the result of Halfeti’s unique soil pH brought about by the water from the Euphrates River. Incidentally, when the black rose of Halfeti is grown elsewhere, the emerging flower is a typical red rose. It was said that the flower bud starts out a deep shade of red and progresses to a rich, velvety black as the flower opens (1). This rare-colored flower, called ‘kara gul’ in Turkish, bloomed in Halfeti, a village near the historical Euphrates River. It was in 2013 when a video of the black rose that grew in Turkey went viral.
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