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Psidium cattleianum
3m tree. Bright green leaves, opposite arrangement. Creamy flowers with many stamen & a round green fruit, ripening to red. Fruit are about 2cm in diameter. The fruit can be eaten by cutting them in half and scooping out the pulp and seeds or by biting off a piece of the rind and sucking out the insides. Strawberry guavas taste like a passionfruit mixed with strawberry
Spotted on Feb 5, 2013
Submitted on Feb 6, 2013
12 Comments
Around 2cm fishnlove.
This looks a lot like our blueberry or huckleberry here in the states interesting. How large are they?
Haha! My stomach aches already! :)
An invader, huh? Well, it is your duty to eradicate it! Eat as many fruits as you can! :-)
It's in a shared open garden just near my house. It has definately been planted there....not native.
Did you spot it in a park or something like that? It is a native brazilian plant!
I must go back & collect some then :)
BTW, it reads Ah-rah-ssah...
I know this one because I lived in a house where there was a huge araça tree, and I eat a lot of that oh-so-good red fruit!!! :-)
Wonderful! Thank you Sergio!
http://jacarezinho.ifpr.edu.br/2009-2/ar...
Araça???? In Australia???? Need to check!!!