COMMON NAME: GUAVA, FEIJOA
Pot Size: 5L
Sometimes referred to as the Pineapple Guava. The Feijoa is an ornamental, small bushy tree bearing egg shaped green skinned fruit that has a great flavour. The scarlet flowers in spring are very showy and are sweet and edible. The Feijoa, which is in the same family as the guava, but actually is not your traditional Guava! The fruit has the taste and aroma of Strawberry, Pineapple, Lemon, Passionfruit and guava all combined.
The tiny edible seeds are embedded in the center. The spectacular purple, pink and white flowers have sweet delicious petals that make a superb ingredient in sweets and drinks.
The Tree is very attractive and can be planted to form beautiful flowering and fruiting hedges, screens or windbreaks. It can be trained as a standard tree or a multi-trunked specimen. They are well suited to pots and even small trees will produce flowers and fruits after as little as three years.
If you live outside of Sydney, please enquire first before purchasing this plant. We only supply smaller plants (15cm pot size or smaller) outside of Sydney, but if the quantity purchase is large enough we can price you on the freight. Thank you for your understanding.
Position: Full sun to part shade
Height: 4.5m
Width: 4.5m