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Psidium cattleyanum (World Plants: Psidium cattleianum), [2] [3] commonly known as Cattley guava, strawberry guava or cherry guava, is a small tree (2–6 m (6 ft 7 in – 19 ft 8 in) tall) in the Myrtaceae (myrtle) family. The species is named in honour of English horticulturist William Cattley.
The term guava appears to have been in use since the mid-16th century. [3] The name derived from the Taíno, [4] a language of the Arawaks as guayabo for guava tree via the Spanish for guayaba. [3] It has been adapted in many European and Asian languages, having a similar form. [2]
Its common English names include wild guava, Ceylon oak, patana oak. [4] Careya arborea is a deciduous tree that grows up to 15 metres (49 ft) high. Its leaves turn red in the cold season. Flowers are yellow or white in colour that become large green berries. The tree grows throughout India in forests and grasslands.
Guava is a perennial tree that grows well under sun or warm temperatures. Therefore, it appears in numerous countries that have tropical weather or subtropical. Guava has a habitat contributing along roadside, grassland, or near sea level to 1600m, and it is more prevalent in humid grassland. [5] Red guava Psidium guajava
The chilling requirement of a fruit is the minimum period of cold weather after which a fruit-bearing tree will blossom productively. It is often expressed in chill hours, which can be calculated in different ways, all of which essentially involve adding up the total amount of time in a winter spent at certain temperatures. [1] [2]
This plant can be a shrub 1 to 3 meters tall or a tree reaching 7 meters. The bark and foliage are grayish. The leaves are up to 14 centimeters long by 8 wide. The stiff, oval-shaped blades sometimes have toothed edges. The undersides are very glandular and are coated in pale or reddish hairs.
Cold-stunned iguana crawls away after falling from tree. When temperatures stay low long enough, NWS Miami tends to issue "Falling iguana alerts" warning residents to watch out for falling lizards.
Rhodomyrtus psidioides, the native guava, is a shrub or small rainforest tree up to 12 m (39 ft) high, member of the botanical family Myrtaceae, native to eastern Australia. [ 1 ] Leaves are ovate to elliptic or oblong, 5–25 cm (2–10 in) long and 2.5–6.5 cm (1–3 in) wide, with a glossy upper surface and paler lower surface.