Pounamu

Variety of Pineapple guava · Acca sellowiana

Large-fruited, sweet cultivar with bright-green flesh.

🇳🇿 New Zealand 2000

Taste & characteristics

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

Large, elongated fruit with sweet, juicy and vividly green flesh.

Productive with a pollinator; ripens in mid-autumn.

Name is Maori for 'greenstone' (jade) – a nod to the green flesh.

Site, soil, hardiness and growth follow the species Pineapple guava unless the variety states otherwise. Will it grow where you live? → Check your site on the species page

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