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Psidium guajava
Also called Guava Tree, Guave Tree, Guyaba, Common Guava, Lemon Guava, Yellow Guava, Abas
In Singapore: Guava, Jambu Batu, Jambu Biji, Common Guava, Yellow Guava, Apple Guava, Jambu Kampuchia, 番石榴, 芭乐, Dwarf Guava, Miniature Guava, Variegated Guava, 斑叶番石榴 (Grown in Singapore)
Guava is a fast-growing evergreen shrub or small tree grown for its sweet, aromatic fruit in warm climates. It needs plenty of sun and warmth, and fruiting from seed can take several years.
Psidium guajava, the common guava, yellow guava, lemon guava, or apple guava is an evergreen shrub or small tree native to South America. It is pollinated by insects. When cultivated, it is pollinated mainly by the common honey bee, Apis mellifera.
Guava is native to Peru. Some sources list it as also native to Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and the rest of South America.
Guava is an edible fruit, and can be eaten raw or cooked. The processing of the fruits yields by-products that can be fed to livestock. The leaves can also be used as fodder. It is also used by phasmid breeders to feed various stick insect species, including Extatosoma tiaratum and Eurycnema goliath, as well as various leaf insect species such as Pulchriphyllium giganteum, Pulchriphyllium bioculatum, and Phyllium monteithi.
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Psidium guajava by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
