Pineapple Guava is a tropical-looking but hardy evergreen shrub or small tree admired and prized for its unique and sugar-sweet edible flowers and tasty tropical-like fruit. The exotic 1 to 1.5-inch flowers have curled petals with white undersides and fuchsia-pink topsides and a bouquet of up to 50 or more elongated, yellow-tipped bright red stamens that protrude from the center. Its waxy, green-skinned kiwi size fruits appear in mid to late summer developing a wonderful fragrance just before ripening in fall. Pineapple Guava has elongated leathery rich green leaves with silvery undersides. Make sure to plant Pineapple Guava where you can enjoy the flowers and fragrant fruit from up close.

Please Note: Though self-fruitful, no Pineapple Guava varieties are entirely self-fertile. The percentage varies per type, weather, cross-pollination, bird and bee activity, etc.

Plant Type: Evergreen Flowering and Fruiting Shrub or Small Tree
Height at Maturity: 10-15′
Width at Maturity: 10-15′
Spacing: 8-10′ for solid hedges; 20′ for space between plants
Growth Habit / Form: Broad, Bushy, Upright
Growth Rate: Fast
Flower Color: White, Fuschia-Pink, Red
Flower Size: 3″
Flowering Period: Late Spring, and Early Summer
Flower Type: Single
Fragrant Flowers: No
Foliage Color: Medium Green
Fragrant Foliage: No however, fruit is fragrant!
Berries: No
Berry Color: NA
Sun Needs: Full Sun or Mostly Sun, Morning Sun with Dappled or Afternoon Shade, Morning Shade with Evening Sun
Water Needs: Average, low when established
Soil Type: Clay (Amended), Loam, Sandy, Silty
Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well Drained Moist
Soil pH: 4.5 – 7.5 (Moderately Acid to Slightly Alkaline)
Maintenance / Care: Low
Attracts: Visual Attention
Resistances: Deer, Disease, Drought, Heat

LANDSCAPE & GARDEN USES

Growing in an upright habit with a rounded form to 10-15 feet tall and 10-15 feet wide, Pineapple Guava is ideal for use as a large specimen shrub or “limbed up” to form an attractive small tree in landscape borders or home foundation plantings. Its dense foliage makes it an excellent selection as an evergreen hedge or screen. A fine addition to edible landscapes, tropical gardens, wildlife gardens, and cottage gardens.

Note: For our customers who live and garden in very cool to cold areas during the winter months, where this plant is not winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

Spacing: 8-10′ for solid hedges; 20′ for space between plants

GROWING PREFERENCES
Pineapple Guava is easy to grow in a moist but well drained soil with plenty of organic matter and full sun or part shade. It adapts to both acid or alkaline soil conditions so pH isn’t usually a concern. It can be pruned for shaping purposes in early spring or after harvesting the fruit. Pineapple Guava flowers are produced on new growth (new shoots), so pruning in early spring will not prevent flowering and fruiting later in the season. Avoid winter pruning. Once established, Pineapple Guava is quite drought tolerant.

NOTE: For proper pollination and fruiting of your Pineapple Guava (Feijoa) tree it is advisable to purchase and plant two (2) or more Pineapple Guava (Feijoa) trees within a 20 foot proximity to each other.

Note: For more helpful Planting Care Tips & advice from our experts, please contact us via the information given on this website.

DELIVERY OPTION: Pineapple Guava treess will be delivered islandwide via Knutsford Express.

NOTE: FOR THIS ITEM ISLANDWIDE DELIVERY IS AVAILABLE.

Disclaimer
We do take every possible care to grow healthy plants and send these out in the variety as labeled.

We are very careful with packing and handling our plants, however it is the responsibility of the purchaser to promptly unpack, plant and care for the plants appropriately once they arrive.

Please read cultivation notes for each variety carefully, as Nature Touch Farms will not be held accountable for the care of plants once they leave our premises.

Dispatch
We will dispatch your plant order as soon as possible.
Please note the plants are individually prepped, wrapped and packaged to ensure safety in transit and this takes time.
During busy periods, plant orders can take up to 5 – 7 days to process, so please notify us of any dates we need to take into account when sending your plants.

Images are for reference purposes only. Actual product may vary in shape or appearance based on climate, age, height, etc.