Strawberry guava
Psidium cattleyanum Sabine
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Little
- tall
- 5.3 m
- wide
- 5.3 m
Myrtaceae
Formerly Episyzygium oahuense, Eugenia oxygona, Eugenia pseudovenosa, Eugenia urceolata, and 19 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- E. & S. Brazil to NE. UruguayKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from UF/IFAS, one source
- Height
- 4.6 m to 6.0 mRead from UF/IFAS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: UF/IFAS 15–25 ft; Wikipedia 2–6 m
- Spread
- 3.0 m to 7.6 mRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from UF/IFAS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (2)
- Chinese
- 草莓番石榴
- Simplified Chinese
- 草莓番石榴
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- UF/IFAS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0
- 3D model: Psidium cattleyanum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.