Apollo
Variety of Pineapple guava · Acca sellowiana
Large-fruited, mild-sweet cultivar with smooth skin and fine texture.
🇳🇿 New Zealand 1980
Taste & characteristics
Taste
mildsweetaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Neuseeländische Zuchtsorte
- Breeder
- DSIR / HortResearch
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
- Fruit weight
- 120 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Large, oval fruit with smooth to slightly waved light-green skin and mild, sweet flesh.
Yield
Partly self-fertile; markedly higher yield with a pollinator. Ripens mid-early.
Notes
Popular modern New Zealand cultivar for the fresh market.
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