Guava
ಸೀಬೆகொய்யாप्सिडियम ग्वाजाव्हा
Psidium guajava L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 6.1 m
- wide
- —
Myrtaceae
Also called Common guava, Tropical Guava, Yellow Guava, Apple Guava
Formerly Guajava pumila, Guajava pyrifera, Myrtus guajava, Psidium angustifolium, and 12 more
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
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
- As a cultigen from PeruKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from UF/IFAS, one source
- Height
- 6.1 mRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from UF/IFAS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -3.9 °C (USDA zone 9b)Read from UF/IFAS, one source
Not known yet: spread, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- al-pil-ca, bec, ca'aru
- Spanish
- Guayaba dulce, Guayaba, Guayabo
- Indonesian
- Jambu Biji, Jambu Klutuk
- Chinese
- 番石榴, 芭樂, 番石榴叶
- Portuguese
- Goiabeira, Goiaba, Guava
- French
- Goyavier
- Thai
- ฝรั่ง
- Finnish
- hedelmäguava
- Japanese
- バンジロウ, グァバ
- Sinhala
- පේර
- Italian
- Guava, Guaiava
- Turkish
- guava
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, 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 2026-10-24, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Psidium guajava (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.