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Psidium guajava - Fruits - Click to enlarge!

Fruits; Morogoro, Morogoro Region, Tanzania; 5/2012 © Jörn Germer

Psidium guajava - Flowers - Click to enlarge!

Flowers; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 5/2008 © Jingxin Liu

Psidium guajava - Flower and leaf - Click to enlarge!

Flower and leaf; Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil; 7/2014 © Thaís Vasconcelos

Psidium guajava - Foliage - Click to enlarge!

Foliage; Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil; 7/2014 © Thaís Vasconcelos

Psidium guajava - Branch with fruit - Click to enlarge!

Branch with fruit; Balinsasayao, Negros Oriental, Philippines; 8/2009 © Evren Sinar

Psidium guajava - Juvenile fruits - Click to enlarge!

Juvenile fruits; Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil; 9/2014 © Thaís Vasconcelos

Psidium guajava - Juvenile fruits, side view - Click to enlarge!

Juvenile fruits, side view; Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil; 9/2014 © Thaís Vasconcelos

Psidium guajava - Fruit - Click to enlarge!

Fruit; Morogoro, Morogoro Region, Tanzania; 5/2012 © Jörn Germer

Psidium guajava - Leaf - Click to enlarge!

Leaf; Balinsasayao, Negros Oriental, Philippines; 8/2009 © Evren Sinar

Psidium guajava - Upper and lower surface of leaves - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaves; Morogoro, Morogoro Region, Tanzania; 5/2012 © Jörn Germer

Psidium guajava - Foliage - Click to enlarge!

Foliage; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 5/2008 © Jingxin Liu

Psidium guajava - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Balinsasayao, Negros Oriental, Philippines; 8/2009 © Evren Sinar

Psidium guajava - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Morogoro, Morogoro Region, Tanzania; 5/2012 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 1168
Date of entry: 08.09.2009
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Common guava

German: Echte Guave

Mandarin: 番石榴 (fan shi liu)

Portuguese: Goiabeira

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Myricales (6)

        Family: Myricaceae (6)(family description)

          Genus: Psidium (1)

            Epithet: guajava L. (1)

guajava => possibly derived from the Arawak guayabo (guava tree) via the South American-Spanish name guayaba

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habit: tree

External links

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