Guava

Attractive, frilly flowers mature into guava fruits, which may be round, ovoid or pear-shaped. A series of tests on Indian fruits, including Himalayan apples and pomegranates, bananas from the south, found the guava to be the ultimate super food with the highest concentration of antioxidants which protects against the cell damage that often ages skin! From seed, common guavas may bloom and set fruit in as little as 2 years. They are evergreen, faintly fragrant, and growth, in California for example, is rarely over 10 - 12 feet. Guavas can bloom throughout the year in mild-winter areas, but the heaviest bloom occurs with the onset of warm weather in the spring.