Delicious shrubs and garden ornamentals that look beautiful and feed you? The White Asian Guava Tree (Psidium guajava) is a gorgeous flowering landscaping evergreen! These versatile fruit trees have loads of exotic appeal!
With a shrubby growth habit and defined tropical foliage, you’ll enjoy the unusual blossoms are sweet and fragrant. You’ll enjoy their arrival as will your pollinators! Soon the unique flowers swell into green, pear-shaped fruit with delectably creamy white interiors and small seeds.
Eaten fresh, flavor water, slice into fruit salads or made into tasty preserves, you’ll have plenty of fruit to try in all your exotic recipes! Afterward, share your bounty of these tropical fruits with friends and family after you’ve had your fill!
Planting and Application:
Exotic plants in subtropical climates like these are fantastic shrubs for hedges, privacy and screening! Create hedgerows that are dual-purpose for edible landscapes while enclosing your property in seclusion. Beautiful as back of the border greenery or pruned as an interesting specimen and garden bed anchor, Guava are as pretty as any flowering plant or tree!
Remove lower limbs and extra trunks to create unique accents and focal points, or prune smaller to keep them as patio and balcony trees for pinpoint shade! Guava are ideal candidates for containers and planters, so you can have these fruiting and flowering beauties anywhere there’s enough sun!
- Fragrant Curious Flowers
- Green Skinned, Pear Shaped Fruit
- Juicy, Flavorful White Flesh
- Distinct Tropical Green Foliage
- Up to 2 Crops a Year
Tips for Care:
White Guava needs the full sun to have the most blooms and the best fruit. Their shallow roots do best with consistent, average moisture that doesn’t dry out or become too soggy. Add Nature Hills Root Booster to get your tree off to a fast start!
- Full Sun
- Consistent Average Moisture
- Prune After Flowering
- Ripen On Tree
Flowering ornamental tree or shrub, or fruiting container plant, the White Asian Guava Tree will be your new favorite orchard or landscaping addition!
White Asian Guava Tree (Psidium guajava) Details
Common name | White Asian Guava Tree |
Botanical name | Psidium guajava |
Plant type | Broad-Leaved Evergreen |
Hardiness zone | 9-11 |
Growth rate | Medium |
Height | 20 - 35 ft. |
Width | 15 - 20 ft. |
Sunlight | Full Sun |
Moisture | Medium |
Soil condition | Well Drained Soil |
Pollinator-friendly | Yes |
Pruning time | After Fruiting |
Flower color | White, Pink |