Photo: joao batista Shimoto — CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
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Survives zone 8 through 9
Small yellow-green aromatic fruit — sweet-tart with a resinous guava note; eaten fresh and made into liqueur in Brazil. Care: Winter protection — mulch, fleece, or a warm wall.
- Hardiness
- Zone 8 to 9
- Habit
- Shrub
- Edible part
- Fruit
- Ripens
- Summer
- Mature size
- Compact shrub 1–3 m; containerable
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil pH
- 5.5–7.0 (acid–neutral; dislikes chalk)
- Environment
- Cerrado (seasonally dry savanna)
- Status
- Both wild and cultivated
- Years to fruit
- 3–4 yrs
- Pollination
- Self-fertile, better with a partner