Common myrtle belongs to the Myrtaceae family, which comprises approx. 145 genera and over 5500 species ( Snow et al. 2011). The genus Myrtus includes flowering plant with approximately 16 species reported in areas of the Middle East and Asia ( Twaij et al., 1988 and Romani et al., 1999). M. communis L., known as true myrtle, is one of the important aromatic and medicinal species from this family. It is an evergreen sclerophyll shrub or small tree, 1.8–2.4 m in height, with small foliage and deep fissured bark ( Mendes et al. 2001). True Myrtle is characterized by its branches, which form a close full head, thickly covered with ovate or lanceolate evergreen leaves ( Fig. 1). Their leaves are 3–5 cm long and contain tannins, flavonoids and volatile oils ( Baytop 1999). This species is a very aromatic plant because of the high essential oil content in its leaf, flower and fruit glands. It has solitary axillary white or rosy flowers, followed by black a several-seeded berry which is spherical in shape with dark red to violet in color ( Mahmoud et al. 2010). There are two major fruit morphologies based on the color – whether dark or white. The dark color is more frequent, but there are also cultivated white-colored types, which yield much larger fruits than their wild counterparts ( Klein et al. 2000). ☆