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TIL about the Guarana plant, which looks like a cluster of eyes when ripe. This is fitting because it's full of caffeine. (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 4 months ago by FlyingSquid to c/todayilearned

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Soft drinks and tea made from it are delicious.

If I remember correctly, Brazilian indigenous legend is that a woman had a miraculous child, the baby died, and some days after burial from one of the eyes sprouted a guaraná plant, from the other sprouted false-guarana.

[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. I'm not finding much info about false guarana, but this is apparently what it looks like:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/False-guarana-not-identified-found-on-Andira-Marau-Indigenous-Land-near-the-village_fig4_303023020

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Searching in Portuguese might help?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=falso+guarana&t=fpas&iax=images&ia=images

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

If this is what I think it is, it tastes delicious (unlike guaraná). I don’t remember the name, but it wasn’t presented to me as falso guaraná.