A versatile, easy to grow plant yielding edible flowers and tropical fruit! Fleshy, white flower petals have showy red accents, contrasting nicely with the gray-green foliage. Tasty guava-like fruit ripens in late fall. Multiple, upright branching form is easily trained as espalier, hedge or small specimen tree for landscape or container. Evergreen.
Plant Meta
Scientific Name | Feijoa sellowiana 'Coolidgei' |
Growth Habit | Shrub, Tree |
Lifecycle | Perennial |
Sun Requirements | Partial or Dappled Shade (4+ hours daily) |
Water Requirements | Wet Mesic, Mesic |
Soil PH Preferences | |
Maximum Recommended Zone | Zone 8a |
Plant Height | 15' |
Plant Spread | 15' |
Leaves | Evergreen |
Fruiting Time | |
Flowers | |
Flower Color | White |
Flower Size | |
Flower Time | Late spring or early summer |
Uses | |
Edible Parts | Fruit |
Eating Methods | |
Dynamic Accumulator | |
Wildlife Attractant | Butterflies, Hummingbirds |
Disease Resistances | |
Origin: | Lowes |