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 |