Identification Guide For Invasive Exotic Plants of the Florida Keys

Scientific Name:
Common Name(s):
Psidium guavajava
Common guava
Height:
Leaves:
Flowers:
Bark:
Fruit:
Other:
Treatment:
A small tree to 33 feet
The leaves, aromatic when crushed, are evergreen, opposite, short-petioled,
oval or oblong-elliptic, somewhat irregular in outline; 2 3/4 to six inches
long, up to two inches wide, leathery, with conspicuous parallel veins, and
more or less downy on the underside.
Faintly fragrant, the white flowers, borne singly or in small clusters in the
leaf axils, are one inch wide, with four or five white petals which are quickly
shed, and a prominent tuft of perhaps 250 white stamens tipped with paleyellow
anthers.
Tree is characterized by a slender trunk with peeling bark
The fruit, exuding a strong, sweet, musky odor when ripe, may be round,
ovoid, or pear-shaped, two to four inches long, with four or five protruding
floral remnants (sepals) at the apex; and thin, light-yellow skin, frequently
blushed with pink.
N/A
Basal with 10% Garlon 4
Identification & Biology of
Non-Native Plants in Florida’s
Natural Areas by K.A Langeland,
K. Craddock Burks Identification & Biology of Non-Native Plants in Florida’s
Natural Areas by K.A Langeland, K. Craddock Burks
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