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Its fame is such that the damask rose features in Shakespeare, but for Syrian farmers growing the flower that produces the heady-scented oil used to flavor Turkish delight, tragedy may await.

One of the oldest flowers in history, a staple of perfumers and known for its therapeutic properties, the damask rose is withering in the city and surrounding fields that gave it its name.

Farmer Jamal Abbas looks out over land in El-Mrah, some 60 kilometers northeast of the capital of a country ripped asunder by war for five years.

“The damask rose is dying,” Abbas says in the Nabek area village known for growing the 30-petalled flower, but where cultivated land has decreased by more than half.

The tradition of picking the crop has also faded as entire families have fled the fighting between regime forces and rebel groups.

War prevented access to the rose fields for a time and forced the cancellation of the annual rose festival, depriving El-Mrah of its main source of income.
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