Chilean Guavas / Ugni Molinae , a beautiful shrub that might produce edible fruit

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These are my beautiful Chilean Guavas, Latin name Ugni Molinae. Like regular guavas, Psidium Cattleianum, Psidium Guajava, Pineapple Guava ( Feijoa / Acca Sellowiana ), Eugenias etc they are in the Myrtaceae family. These pretty evergreens should be hardy down to about -10°c ( 14°f ), reliably produce pretty little bell shaped white to pale pink flowers followed by small but edible fruit.
There are very few named varieties but I have the three main ones :-
Butterball with Golden Yellow new growth
Ka-Pow a regular green leafed variety claimed to have larger fruit
Flambeau with beautiful variegated foliage tinged pink.
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1 авг 2020

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@naumikaur7459 2 года назад

Thank you so much . That’s one puzzle solved for me and saved a lot of time as searching for Chilean Guava brought up different names in different websites. Thank you. Going to give it a try .

@lyonheart84 2 года назад

Yes unfortunately the generic name 'guava' covers a lot of different species with fruit that have either a resemblance or taste to 'true' guavas but are not actually members of the Psidium family, however they are mostly all distantly related in the Myrtaceae genus 😁

@VirginiaFruitGrower 3 года назад

Found it. Nice cultivars I've not heard of before. Thanks for sharing.

@lyonheart84 3 года назад

I also have a larger variegated one in the ground. Strangely enough the only one I haven’t got is the plain green smaller fruited regular Chilean guava

@janetwhitney7432 3 года назад

I was very excited to see the fig ripen. Was waiting for it. I had my one and only fig ripen here in Co Wexford. Picked it yesterday. Delucious. Brown turkey.

@lyonheart84 3 года назад

Great to hear you got one as well Janet, they are always at their best fresh off the plant 👍

@jondi1115 4 года назад

Thinking of getting one of these. Cheers

@lyonheart84 4 года назад

Very ornamental even if they don't fruit or you don't eat the fruit

@ceili 4 года назад

You'll enjoy these, they are delicious. I'm surprised more people don't grow them.

@lyonheart84 4 года назад

My only criticism is they seem so small they'd hardly be worth the effort to pick and eat, about the size of a small redcurrant?

@ceili 4 года назад

@@lyonheart84 yep, that's true. Give them a few year and they'll really start putting out. I've seen some this year that are absolutely loaded with fruit

@Terracegardeninglife 4 года назад

Never heard about this fruit , no idea if it grows in our country. Good information 👍. New subscriber.

@lyonheart84 4 года назад

What country are you in ? Anywhere above about -10c ( 14f ) in winter will be fine. I know of people growing it all over Europe, in America and Australia so unless you are somewhere very cold it should be fine and as it's a small, quite slow growing shrub even if you were somewhere cold should be easy to bring under cover in a pot.

@Terracegardeninglife 4 года назад

@@lyonheart84 I am from India

@lyonheart84 4 года назад

Likes a tropical climate as well so I think you could grow it there, perhaps not in full sun. They do well in florida and southern California. You probably might not find the plant for sale there but seeds should be easy to find online

@conormcgovern9054 3 года назад

I have both kapok and about 6 unnamed plants - kapowfruit are definitely bigger - same flavour. Both fruit prolifically - ready in SeptemberOctober. Plants have stayed smallish - not as big as the variegated one you show above. All grown in Dublin.

@lyonheart84 3 года назад

I’ve never even tasted them lol, hope they taste ok 😂😂. My in ground flambeau is the biggest

@tonymckay6556 2 года назад

hello! i wish you can sell me seeds.

@lyonheart84 2 года назад

I’ve never saved the seeds from fruit but I’m sure I can do that next season 😁

@Coolclimatetropicalfruits 4 года назад

Interested to see your taste and size comparison one day 👍🏻

@lyonheart84 4 года назад

Haha hopefully, I suspect they don't have much taste and I reckon they will all taste exactly the same

@mrmusdtard2 3 года назад

can wild birds eat the fruit of a Myrtus Flambeau Chilean Guava Evergreen Flowering please

@lyonheart84 3 года назад

They didnt eat mine, maybe they cannot see the fruits on Flambeau because they are white. The normal variety has red fruits, maybe the birds can see them better

@mrmusdtard2 3 года назад

Hi thanks for your reply i was just checking because i have a small feeder set up for wild birds only feeders and a birdtable but the plant would be close to them and i hoping it would be safe for them in case they ate some of the fruit,so thank you best wishes Brian

@lyonheart84 3 года назад

@@mrmusdtard2 Hi Brian I think the fruits might be safe from birds but to be honest they are quite compact plants so I think it would be easy to throw a fine meshed net over the plant if the birds developed a taste for the berries. Normally I think birds will only bother with the easy option of getting food from the feeder 😁🤞

@ceili 4 года назад

If you want more varieties there is a nursery in the UK called 'edulis'. They stock some very hard to get Ugni varieties (not that you need any more plants 😜).

@lyonheart84 4 года назад

Where is that nursery Ceili ? Never heard of it. As you said I'm somewhat snowed under with plants 😂😂

@barrycartwright8400 4 года назад

i have two luma apiculata and one kapow

@lyonheart84 4 года назад

Never heard of luma apiculata ? What's that look like ?

@barrycartwright8400 4 года назад

@@lyonheart84 might be easier to do search on the web to see than me explaining 😆

@ceili 3 года назад

Have you tried the fruit from Luma Apiculata?

@lyonheart84 3 года назад

Were you asking me or Barry ? I certainly haven’t. I find most of the myrtles relatively uninspiring 😬😬

@ceili 3 года назад

@@lyonheart84 Barry actually! I've never tried myrtles, just curious about opinions on them

@wadley251 4 года назад

How long would a plant like that take to Germinate?

@lyonheart84 4 года назад

I’ve never grown them from seed as the plants are cheap to buy here, but if they are like other members of the same plant family probably only 3 or 4 weeks to germinate

@wadley251 4 года назад

lyonheart84 exotic fruit growing thanks it’s seem like it would be long.