Guava tree

The guava tree ( Psidium guajava ) is a plant Dicotylédone of the family of the Myrtaceae of the tropical areas of America. It is a tree of intermediate size which can reach 8m height. It is pollinated by the insects. The sheets of oblong form are covered with a fine sleeping bag on the lower face. They can reach 15 cm length and 7 cm broad.

Origin and distribution

Native of the Caribbean and the Central America, it is a fruit tree which one finds in the whole of America Tropicale.

Habitat, ecology

It is a tree of the wet and dry tropical forests which one also finds on banks of the rivers.

Uses

The Guava tree is a fruit tree of very great economic importance. There exist varieties of yellow guavas (guava pear) or green (guava apple). They are consumed fresh and can be transformed into jams, frozen and fruit juice.

Vernacular names

English, Danish: guava
Spanish: German Guayaba, guayava
: Guave
Portuguese: goiaba
Polish: Gujawa

With the Meeting, this species ( Psidium guajava ) is called foot of guava or foot of gouyave ( whereas the guava tree term or foot of guava tree is reserved for the species Psidium cattleainum , known elsewhere under the name of Goyavier of China or of guava tree mills ).

Others

The kind Psidium includes/understands a hundred species which extend in all tropical America.

See too

Internal bonds

Guava tree of Brazil ( Feijoa sellowiana ).
Guava tree of Chile ( Ugni molinae ).
Guava tree of China ( Psidium cattleianum ): Species which gives a Fruit that one calls guava tree with the Réunion.

External bonds

Zh-min-nan: Pa̍t-á

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