| Botanical name | Feijoa sellowiana (Acca sellowiana) |
| Common name | Pineapple Guava, Guavasteen |
| Category | cespuglio sempreverde, mezzo-fusto alberetto |
| Origin | Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina |
| Bearing | evergreen large shrub or small tree |
| Leaves | its thick sliver/ green leaves are opposite, obtuse with entire margins and up to 6cm long and 3cm broad |
| Flowers | its distinctive flowers have numerous red stamen and four fleshy white petals. Its is not self fertile. Its edible fruit is green, oblong, up to 6cm long and 5cm wide |
| Flowering Period | summer |
| Soil | Feijoa sellowiana prefers moist, fertile, well-drained soils. It tolerates most pH of soil, although it prefers chalky soils. |
| Max Height | 5 m |
| Max Width | 4 m |
| note | the etymological root of the binomial name Feijoa is after the Portuguese botanist Joao de Silva Feijo. Sellowiana is named after Friedrich Sellow the German Botanist and Naturalist who collected specimens in South America who discovered this plant |
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