Hedelmäguava – Psidium guajava

Trunk may attain a diameter of 25 cm. Stems are crooked. Barkis smooth, thin, light to reddish brown, continuously flaking. Young twigs are 4-angled, ridged, and pubescent. Leaves are opposite, simple, short-petioled, oblong to elliptic, 5-15 x 3-6 cm, leathery, with conspicuous parallel veins, entire margins, moreor less pubescent on the underside, aromatic when crushed. Flowers are faintly fragrant, borne singly or in small clusters in the leaf axils. Calyx is whitish, split irregularly into 4-6 lobes, persistent. Petals are 4-5, white, linear-ovate, 1-2 cm long, quickly shed. Stamens are numerous, prominent, about 12 mm long, filaments pale white, erect or spreading, anthers pale-yellow. Ovary is inferior, ovules numerous, style about 10 cm long, stigma green, capitate. Fruit is round, ovoid, or pear-shaped berry, 4-12 cm long, with 4 or 5 protruding sepals at the apex. Exocarp (fruit skin) is yellow when ripe, sometimes flushed with red, exuding a strong, sweet, musky odor when ripe. Fruit pulp (mesocarp) is creamy-white or creamy-yellow to pink or red and juicy. The inner pulp envelopes numerous, cream to brown, kidney-shaped or flattened, 3 mm long seeds.