Psidium guajava L.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Myrtaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Species Description - A shrub, or a small tree, sometimes 5 m. tall, with pubescent 4-angled branchlets. Leaves firm-leathery, oblong or nearly so, 4-8 cm. long, mostly obtuse, pubescent beneath, with prominent rib-like nerves, short-petioled; calyx-lobes 1-1.5 cm. long, united in the bud; petals 1.5-2 em. long; berries globular or pyriform, 3-6 cm. in diameter.
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Discussion
Scrub-lands, roadsides and waste places, spontaneous after cultivation ; planted and spontaneous near towns on all the larger islands : spontaneous after cultivation in Florida and in Bermuda ; West Indies ; continental tropical America. Guava.
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Distribution
Florida and in Bermuda ; West Indies ; continental tropical America.
Florida United States of America North America| West Indies| Bermuda South America|