Psidium guajava L.
common guava; yellow guava; lemon guava; apple guava
Other names
| International recognized trade name (ATIBT) | ||
| Deutsch | Echte Guave; Guava, Guayave, Guayaba; Goiaba | |
| English | common guava; yellow guava; lemon guava; apple guava | |
| Français | Goyavier | |
| Italiano | Echte Guave; Guava, Guayave, Guayaba; Goiaba | |
| Suomi | Echte Guave; Guava, Guayave, Guayaba; Goiaba | |
| Norsk | Echte Guave; Guava, Guayave, Guayaba; Goiaba | |
| Čeština | Echte Guave; Guava, Guayave, Guayaba; Goiaba | |
| Español | Guajaba | |
| Svenska | Echte Guave; Guava, Guayave, Guayaba; Goiaba | |
| Polski | Echte Guave; Guava, Guayave, Guayaba; Goiaba | |
| Український | Echte Guave; Guava, Guayave, Guayaba; Goiaba | |
| Român | Echte Guave; Guava, Guayave, Guayaba; Goiaba | |
| Русский | Echte Guave; Guava, Guayave, Guayaba; Goiaba | |
| Български | Echte Guave; Guava, Guayave, Guayaba; Goiaba | |
| EESTI | Echte Guave; Guava, Guayave, Guayaba; Goiaba | |
| 日本語 | Echte Guave; Guava, Guayave, Guayaba; Goiaba | |
| Other names | Guajava; Guava; Guave; Guayaba |
Origin
| States and Territories | Argentina (Chaco, Corrientes, Formosa, Jujuy, Misiones, Salta, Tucuman); S-Brazil (Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina); Paraguay (Alto Paraguay, Amambay, Caaguazu, Caazapa, Canindeyu, Central, Cordillera, Guaira, Paraguari, Pres. Hayes); Venezuela (Amazonas, Apure, Aragua, Bolívar, Delta Amacuro, Venezuela Distrito Federal, Guarico, Lara, Merida, Miranda, Monagas, Nueva Esparta, Sucre); N-Brazil (Amazonas, Acre); NE-Brazil (Maranhao, Piauí, Ceara, Pernambuco, Bahia, Alagoas, Sergipe); WC-Brazil (Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul); SE-Brazil (Minas Gerais, Espirito Santo, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro); Mexico (Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Colima, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico State, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatan, Zacatecas); Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Bahamas; Turks & Caicos Isl.; Cayman Isl.; Cuba; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Puerto Rico; Virgin Isl. (Guana, St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas, Tortola, Virgin Gorda); Anguilla; Antigua; Barbados; Dominica; Grenada; Grenadines; Guadeloupe; Marie-Galante; Martinique; Montserrat; Saba; St. Barthélémy; St. Eustatius; St. Kitts; Saint Lucia; St. Martin/St. Maarten; St. Vincent; Isla Margarita; Tobago; Trinidad; Panama; Galapagos; Peru [I]; Nicaragua; Ecuador; Guyana [I]; Surinam [I]; French Guiana [I]; Bolivia (Beni, Chuquisaca, Cochabamba, La Paz, Pando, Santa Cruz, Tarija); Colombia (Amazonas, Antioquia, Boyacá, Caldas, Caquetá, Cauca, Cundinamarca, Huila, Magdalena, Meta, Nariño, Putumayo, Santander, Tolima, Valle); Thailand [I]; Cambodia [I]; Java [I]; Vietnam [I]; Australia [I] (Queensland [I], New South Wales [I]); Christmas Isl. [Austr.] [I]; Taiwan [I]; Ryukyu Isl. [I]; China [I]; tropical Africa [I]; Namibia [I]; Cameroon [I]; Benin [I]; Guinea [I]; Chad [I]; Principe Isl. [I]; Burkina Faso [I]; São Tomé [I]; Annobon Isl. [I]; Bioko Isl. [Fernando Poo] [I]; Zambia [I]; Mozambique [I]; Malawi [I]; Zimbabwe [I]; Somalia [I]; South Africa [I]; New Caledonia [I]; Austral Isl. [I] (Tubuai [I]); Fiji [I]; Lord Howe Isl. [I]; Vanuatu [I]; Norfolk Isl. [I]; American Samoa [I] (Manua Isl. [I]); Banaba [Ocean] Isl. [I]; Cook Isl. [I] (Rarotonga [I]); Marquesas Isl. [I] (Nuku Hiva [I], Ua Huka [I], Ua Pou [I], Hiva Oa [I], Tahuata [I], Fatu Hiva [I]); Marshall Isl. [I] (Kwajalein [I]); Niue [I]; N-Line Isl. [I] (Teraina [I], Tabueran [I]); Palau [I] (Babeldaob [I], Koror [I], Angaur [I], Yap [I], Ulithi [I], Todiu [I], Fefan [I], Pohnpei [I], Kosrae [I]); S-Cook Isl. [I] (Mangaia [I]); Society Isl. [I] (Tahiti [I], Moorea [I], Raiatea [I], Maupiti [I]); Northern Marianas [I] (Pagan [I], Sarigan [I], Anatahan [I], Saipan [I], Tinian [I], Rota [I]); Guam [I]; Tonga [I] (Tongatapu [I], 'Eua [I]); Tuamotu Arch. [I] (Makatea Isl. [I], Takapoto Atoll [I]); [Western] Samoa [I] (Savaii [I]); Niue [I]; Bonin Isl. [I] (Keetaajima [I], Chichijima [I], Hahajima [I]); Rotuma Isl. [I]; Mauritius [I]; La Réunion [I]; Rodrigues [I]; Madagascar [I]; Madeira [I] (Madeira Isl. [I]); Cape Verde Isl. [I] (Santo Antao Isl. [I], Ilha de Sao Nicolau [I], Ilha de Sao Tiago [I], Fogo Isl. [I], Ilha Brava [I]); Hawaii [I] (Kauai [I], Oahu [I], Molokai [I], Lanai [I], Maui [I], Hawaii Isl. [I]); New Zealand [I]; Andaman Isl. [I]; Singapore [I]; Nicobar Isl. [I]; Bhutan [I]; India [I]; Bangladesh [I]; Myanmar [I]; Sri Lanka [I]; Nepal [I]; Pakistan [I]; Laos [I]; Philippines [I]; Lakshadweep Isl. [Laccadives] [I]; Maldives [I]; USA [I] (Florida [I], Louisiana [I]) | |||
| [I] = Introduced | ||||
Botany
| Reich | Plantae | |||
| Tribe | Tracheophyta | |||
| Gymnosperm | Angiosperm | |||
| Class | Magnoliopsida | |||
| Order | Myrtales | |||
| Family | Myrtaceae | |||
| Genus | Psidium | |||
| Species | guajava | |||
| Author citation | L. | |||
| Scientific name | Psidium guajava L. | |||
Habitus
| Wood type | Hardwood | |||
Natural durability
(according to EN 350)
| Mushrooms field | DC | |||
Appearances
Wood
Hough
Psidium guajava , ©Dennis Wilson
Bark
, Bark , ©Dennis Wilson
Seed
, Seeds , ©Dennis Wilson
Branch
, Branch , ©Dennis Wilson