Detwiler
Variety of Guava · Psidium guajava
Old Californian cultivar with yellowish-salmon, firm and mildly sweet flesh.
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9🇺🇸 USA 1910
Taste & characteristics
Taste
firmsweetaromatic
Profile
- Breeder
- H. J. Webber
- Pollination
- self-fertile
- Fruit weight
- 140 g
Description
Fruit
Medium, round to slightly pear-shaped fruits with yellowish-salmon, medium-firm, pleasantly flavoured flesh.
Growth
Robust tree well adapted to milder Californian climates.
Yield
Reliable yields; historically valued for cooler subtropics.
Notes
Selected around 1900 in Riverside, California, by H. J. Webber; noted for relative cold tolerance.
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