Guava
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(gwä´v), small evergreen tree or shrub of the genus Psidium of the family Myrtaceae (myrtle family), native to tropical America and grown elsewhere for its ornamental flowers and edible fruit.
Guavas are primarily self-fruitful, although some strains seem to produce more fruit when cross-pollinated with another variety.
Tropical Guava
Scientific Name: Psidium guajava L.
Synonym:
Family: Myrtaceae ...
Strawberry guava is a shrub to small tree with dark red, cherry-sized, edible fruit. In squirrel-infested areas where anything edible, from plums to olives, is at risk, the guavas are left untouched.
ECOLOGICAL THREAT: Strawberry guava is a very serious, habitat-altering pest in many parks and preserves in Hawaii where it poses a major threat to Hawaii's rare endemic flora and fauna.
Pineapple Guava
Description
Feijoa sellowiana is a bushy shrub with elliptic-oblong, gray green leaves with a silver underside. Actually, with pruning, Pineapple Guava can be trained into a single stemmed small tree or pruned as a hedge.
Acca sellowiana 'Triumph' Syn.: Feijoa sellowiana 'Triumph' vernac. Guava , Pineapple guava
RHS Garden, Wisley, Surrey, 30 June
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This pineapple guava copes well with drought and salt-laden air making it a valuable specimen or hedging plant for a sheltered sunny coastal garden.
View more information and pictures about common guava, as contained in the Langeland/Burks book, Identification & Biology of Non-Native Plants in Florida's Natural Areas.
Guava ( Psidium )
Gudoshnik Tulip ( Tulipa )
Guelder Rose Ghent Hybrid Azalea ( Rhododendron hybrida ) ...
Dwarf Guava - slow-growing variety, can be grown in container, will bear a lot of fruit right in a pot. See photo of fruiting plant in container.
3 gal pot
limited qiantity ...
Psidium guajava or guava, native from Mexico to Peru, is a small tree with curious 4-angled branches and peeling bark. Their size is easily controlled in containers. In nature, they will reach a height of 12-14 feet.
Feijoa, Pineapple Guava Feijoa sellowiana
Fern
Swordfern Polystichum munitum
Fescue
Blue Festuca cinerea
Filbert
European Filbert, Hazelnut Corylus avellana
Contorted Filbert, Harry Lauder's Walking Stick Corylus avellana ‘Contorta'
Fir ...
He started sowing seeds when he was 5 years old and remembers his grandfather giving him a strawberry guava tree when he was 7.
Its habit of peeling off in curls as the trunk and branches expand is similar to the guava and crape myrtle. It is evergreen but sheds half its leaves each spring before new growth begins.
The fruits of this species of passionflower are called maypops and are about the size of an apricot and have a similar, but stronger and more aromatic flavor (like a guava).
Guava (Feijoa sellowiana)
Hawthorn (Raphiolepis)
Heath (Erica)
Heavenly bamboo (Nandina domestica)
Holly (Ilex)
Inkberry (Ilex glabra)
Live Oak (Quercus virginiana)
Loblolly bay (Gordonia lasianthus)
Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica)
Magnolia (Magnolia) ...
The pineapple guava is known for its lush purplish flowers and edible green fruit, tinged red, with guava flavor. It may produce fruit in greenhouse conditions, otherwise it makes a delightful houseplant.
[40] He began his first piece, a guava chair, around 1983.[17] Originally intended as something for his children to climb and play on, the piece evolved into a living tree chair.
Weed invasion, particularly by Crofton Weed, Kikuyu, Cherry Guava and Tiger Lily.
Risk of extinction due to small population size and restricted distribution.
Small quantities of seed are predated by the Black Rat.
Feijoa sellowiana
Pineapple guava
Myrtaceae Family
Compiled by the Master Gardeners
of the University of Arizona Pima County Cooperative Extension.
Fruit - raw or cooked[177]. They taste very much like a guava when they are fully ripe[173]. The fruit is a many-seeded berry about 10mm in diameter[200].
Medicinal Uses ...
In the hot and humid conditions of the tropics, air layering is a quick, and therefore frequent, process; in India, for instance, many varieties of fruit tree, such as mango and guava, are propagated by air layerings.
Substance that relieves spasm of smooth muscle.
Hibiscus abelmoschus, Abuta, Guava, Jatoba, Passionflower, Holy Basil, Greater Periwinkle, Lesser Periwinkle, Phyllanthus urinaria, Phyllanthus Amarus, Soursop, Verbena, Shiny bush, Mimosa pudica.
Feijoa sellowiana. Myrtaceae. Myrtle family. Pineapple guava or feijoa. Ornamental but with edible fruit. First imported in about 1925. Grows to about 18 feet. Can flavor ice cream.
Fennel. Non-endemic, invasive.
An infestation of fruit flies can ruin your apples, peaches, or even tomatoes. If you live in the tropics, fruit flies devour guavas, bananas, pineapples and most other fruit. But you can trap them…
Potting Soil for a Venus Fly Trap ...
When the pod first cracks open revealing what resembles a sack of insect or amphibian eggs, the sticky pulp is at that time at its sweetest, & very pleasant on the pallate, reminiscent of a mild melon-flavored or guava-flavored tapioca.
Ripe tomatoes are red due to a natural ageing process which transforms chlorophyll in the green tomatoes to the carotene lycopen which makes the tomatoes red. It is the same chemical that you find in watermelon, red grapefruits, blood oranges, guava ...
Guava Pineapple (Feijoa sellowiana)
Guinea Hen Flower (Fritillaria meleagris)
Gumbo (Abelmoschus esculentus)
Gungurru (Eucalyptus caesia)
Gunnera chilensis
Gunnera manicata
Gymnocladus dioica
Gypsophila paniculata ...
Pineapple guava (Feijoa sellowiana)
Pineapple (Ananas comosus, Ananus sativus)
Pinks (Dianthus chinensis, Dianthus plumarius, Dianthus hybridus, Dianthus allwoodii)
Pitcher plant (Sarracenia species)
Pittosporum (Pittosporum species) ...
 See also: Grape, Banana, Bay, Mango, Citrus
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