Pounamu
Variety of Pineapple guava · Acca sellowiana
Large-fruited, sweet cultivar with bright-green flesh.
9
3
3🇳🇿 New Zealand 2000
Taste & characteristics
Taste
juicysweetaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Neuseeländische Selektion
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
- Fruit weight
- 170 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Large, elongated fruit with sweet, juicy and vividly green flesh.
Yield
Productive with a pollinator; ripens in mid-autumn.
Notes
Name is Maori for 'greenstone' (jade) – a nod to the green flesh.
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