Guava-Acca sellowiana 'Kakariki'

Kakariki Pineapple Guava is a compact, multi-branched shrub or small tree featuring attractive gray-green evergreen leaves with white undersides. Its striking, tropical-style flowers are white with red highlights, and the edible petals have a cotton candy flavor. The resulting fruits offer a unique blend of mint and pineapple tastes. This cultivar, bred in New Zealand, ripens very early and is well-suited to our climate, producing large, sweet fruits with thin, edible skin. It can be grown as an espalier, hedge, or standalone specimen and is partially self-fertile, yielding more fruit when cross-pollinated.