| Dicotyledon | Literature for Psidium cattleyanum
Lorence & Wagner, 2020. |
| Myrtaceae -- The Myrtle Family | Bibliography |
| Psidium cattleyanum | |
Common name(s): guava, strawberry guava, waiawi `ula`ula |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Native to the Neotropics, now widely cultivated and naturalized in tropical and subtropical areas of the world.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Ni`ihau, Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Kaho`olawe, Hawai`i. | |
| Habit |
Shrub or small tree, 2‒6 m tall; young branches terete, sparsely puberulent when young, soon glabrate. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves petiolate; blade obovate to elliptic-obovate, 3.5‒13.5 cm long, (2.5‒)3‒6 cm wide, leathery, secondary veins 7‒9 on each side, scarcely raised on both surfaces, glabrous or glabrate, apex bluntly cuspidate, base attenuate to cuneate; petiole 5‒10 mm long. |
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| Flowers |
Inflorescences usually solitary in the leaf axils. Flowers on pedicel 3‒8 mm long; sepals ca. 4‒5 mm long, persistent in fruit; petals white, obovate, ca. 5‒7 mm long. |
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| Fruit |
Fruit red to purplish red or sometimes yellow, globose to obovoid or ellipsoid, glossy and smooth, 2‒3 cm in diameter, pulp white. |
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| Seeds |
Seeds ca. 5 mm long, tan or cream colored, smooth. |
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| Chromosomes |
2n = 88. |
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| Contributor |
Nancy Khan |
