🌿 Botanical Name
Psidium guajava
👨‍👩‍👦 Family
Myrtaceae
🗣️ Vernacular Names
Guava, Pera.
🌼 Flowering – Fruiting
Throughout the year.
🌍 Distribution
Native of Tropical America.
💡 Status
Least Concern.

Description: Small tree with smooth grey bark exfoliating in thin flakes. Leaves simple, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic, prominently nerved and pubescent beneath. Flowers white, 1-3 in leaf axils. Fruit globose berry.

Uses: Cultivated for their edible fruits. Leaves are medicinal.