Description

The Pineapple Guava (feijoas) makes a great patio plant, outside during the summer and indoors during the winter.

The Pineapple Guava is a slow-growing, multi-stemmed shrub that can be trained to a small tree with a single trunk, espaliered, or pruned to form a dense hedge or screen. Without any pruning, the shrub may reach 15′ high. The egg-shaped leaves are 2″-3″ long and silvery underneath. The edible flowers are very attractive, about an inch cross with white petals and showy scarlet stamens. The edible fruits are round or egg-shaped, 1″-3″ long, with waxy blue-green or gray-green skins and juicy greenish white pulp.

The Pineapple Guava is native to subtropical Paraguay, Uruguay, northern Argentina and southern Brazil. Prefers full sun to part shade.

Feijoas will thrive with little care in most well-drained soils. They rarely have any disease or pest problems, don’t need much fertilizer and usually don’t need supplemental watering except in very dry climates.

Feijoas are adapted to USDA Zones 8 and 9, and do best where the winters are cool (they are hardy to 10 degrees F) and the summers moderate (between 80 degrees and 90 degrees F).

• Without any pruning, the shrub may reach 15′ high
• Easy to grow