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Apollo

Variety of Pineapple guava · Acca sellowiana
Large-fruited, mild-sweet cultivar with smooth skin and fine texture.
Edible value9Medicinal value3Other uses3
🇳🇿 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

J F M A M J J A S O N D
Flowering
Fruit harvest

Given in thirds of a month (early / mid / late) for the northern hemisphere in a temperate climate; altitude and season shift them.

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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