Origin
Mediterranean
Light
Full sun
Watering
Weekly
Care
Moderate
Flowering
Flowering
Edible & Fruit
Goyavier
A fruit whose scent fills an entire room, holding more vitamin C than any citrus.
Care Profile
A guide to ensuring your botanical companion thrives.
Origin
Central America
Light
Full sun
Watering
Weekly
Maintenance
Easy
Scent before taste
Native to Central America, it spread through every tropical and subtropical region, carried by its ease of cultivation and fast fruiting, from the third year.
Its vitamin C content far exceeds an orange's, and its scent, from highly volatile esters, escapes before the fruit is even cut: a ripe guava announces itself from across a room.
"You smell it before you see it."
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Styling Tip 01
Harvest by smell
Pick when the scent becomes clear and the skin slightly yielding: it ripens well at room temperature.
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Styling Tip 02
Annual pruning
Cut back by a third after harvest: it fruits on the current year's shoots, and pruning doubles the crop.
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Styling Tip 03
Frost-sensitive
Below −2 °C the young shoots freeze: in marginal climates grow it in a large pot to shelter in winter.
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Origin
Mediterranean
Light
Full sun
Watering
Rarely
Care
Easy
Flowering
Flowering