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Stange Fruit #2: Guama
2719 days
by Tom Germain
in Strange Fruit
Guama (goo-ah-mah) looks like a big ugly curved string bean. Inside its hard but easy to pry open shell, you encounter a bunch of black seeds, each wrapped tight in a spider web like pulp. Not the most appetizing vision, but the spider webs are actually quite sweet! The indigenous people of Colombia’s Vaupés province make a sacred drink out of it called “cachiri”. Guama isn’t a very popular fruit otherwise.



