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Strawberry Guava
Psidium cattleyanum
Strawberry Guava is an evergreen shrub or small tree from southern Brazil and Uruguay, grown for a small red or yellow fruit with an agreeable acid-sweet flavour, eaten fresh or turned into jelly, jam and drinks. It tolerates poorer, more alkaline soil and colder snaps than common guava, dying back to the roots after a hard freeze and resprouting rather than being killed outright. It also spreads aggressively by bird- and pig-carried seed into dense thickets that crowd out other plants, so where it is grown it needs to stay off watercourses and be harvested hard to limit seed.
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Growing profile
- Sun
- Full Sun · Partial Sun
- USDA zone
- USDA 9–10
- Soil
- Sand · Loam
- Moisture
- Well-Drained · Moderate
Vertical layer
Shrub- Soil pH
- 5.5–7
- Plant type
- Evergreen Tree
- Mature height
- 10–15 ft
- Mature spread
- 6–13 ft
- Plant spacing
- 10 ft
- Root type
- Fibrous-shallow
- Spread pattern
- Seed
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