Pineapple Guava -Feijoa Sellowiana – 7 Gallon Pot

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. Click on the link below to find an article that provides helpful tips for increasing fruit production on Pineapple Guava.

NOTE: As with all of our other plants and trees, all of our fruit plants are grown in containers outdoors so they are fully rooted and landscape-ready upon arrival.

Note:  For our customers who live and garden north of  USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 8a, 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

Note:  For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 8a, where Pineapple Guava is not reliably 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.

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.