Plant · P-493

Pineapple Guava

Acca sellowiana

Pineapple Guava is an evergreen shrub or small tree that yields two separate harvests from the same plant: an aromatic fruit tasting something between pineapple and strawberry, gathered off the ground once it drops rather than picked, and sweet, crisp petals that can be eaten without costing the fruit crop. Despite the name it is not a true guava and has no recorded medicinal use. It sits at the cold-hardy end of the subtropical fruits, tolerating real winter chill once dormant, but needs full sun to fruit well, and a hard freeze after dormancy breaks can cost the season's crop.