Mammoth
Variety of Pineapple guava · Acca sellowiana
New Zealand classic bearing very large, well-flavoured fruit.
🇳🇿 New Zealand 1930
Taste & characteristics
Taste
juicysweetaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Neuseeländische Selektion (Sämling)
- Breeder
- Hayward Wright
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
- Fruit weight
- 200 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Very large, roundish-oval fruit with slightly wrinkled skin, aromatic-sweet flesh and good flavour.
Yield
Productive; markedly more fertile with a pollinator. Ripens mid to late autumn.
Notes
One of the best-known cultivars worldwide; often cited as a benchmark for fruit size.
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