02.12.20 Guava (unidentified)

True, the cherimoya is our gold, but our hands down favorite fruit of the yard is the pineapple guava. Come fall, the trees drop their fruit when they are ready to eat. It’s a bit like hunting for Easter eggs except it’s September and you are only after the oval shaped light to moss-green offerings. By October, we are swamped with pineapple guavas but that didn’t prevent us from planting a third tree a few months ago. The absolutely delightful surprise is that this guava produces fruit right now in mid February, and although the tree looks like a pineapple guava, the fruit is quite different. It is much longer and when fully mature, has a red patch on the side. My girls tried the first two and they say it has elements of the pineapple guava, but they are not ready to call it by that name just yet. Fruit trees always take a few years to get established in our yard so we will need to wait a few more seasons before having good opinions about this tree. If anyone out there knows what variety of guava this is, I would love to hear from you.