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Variety of Pineapple guava · Acca sellowiana
New Zealand classic bearing very large, well-flavoured fruit.
Edible value9Medicinal value3Other uses3
🇳🇿 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

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

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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