Psidium guajava

 

Family: MYRTACEAE

Malayalam Name(s): Adakkapazham, Koyya, Malakkapera, Pela, Pera, Perakka

English name(s): Guava, Guajava, Common guava

Habit: Tree

Flowering & Fruiting: March-May

Habitat: Cultivated

Description: Small trees; stem smooth with pealing bark; young stem 4-angled. Leaves simple, opposite, l6-11 x 2.5-5 cm, elliptic-oblong, apex acute-apiculate, base rounded to obtuse-cuneate, hirsute on both sides when young, glabrous on ageing except the nerves, thin-coriaceous; lateral nerves prominent; petioles 0.6-1 cm long. Cymes axillary, 1-3-flowered; peduncles 0.5-1.2 cm long; pedicel short or 0. Calyx tube 4-9 mm long, ovoid, densely hirsute; lobes 4, unitedland closed in bud. Petals 4, white, 1-1.5 cm long, broadly ovate, caducous. Stamens many. Ovary globose, many-celled; ovules numerous; style subulate. Berry 3-4 cm diam., globose crowned by persistent calyx lobes; seeds many, embedded in fleshy pulp.

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