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Feijoa sellowiana 'Nikita'


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Feijoa sellowiana Nikita' is an early-ripening cultivar with tasty fruit.


Description:
Feijoa (Acca) sellowiana is known as pineapple guava. It is an attractive small, multi-branched shrub or small tree with beautiful gray green, evergreen foliage with white undersides. Its showy, tropical-looking flowers are white with red accents with edible petals that taste like cotton candy. The delicious fruits that follow taste like mint and pineapple. It is easily trained as an espalier, hedge or small specimen tree. 'Nikita' is an early-ripening cultivar from the Nikita Botanical Garden in Yalta, Ukraine. It is one of the earliest cultivars to ripen with tasty fruit. Shrubs are more compact. Requires pollination by another cultivar.


Common Name: Pineapple Guava - [Citrus Pre-Order]

Family: Myrtaceae (The Myrtle Family)

Zone Hardiness: 7-10

Light: Full Sun, Part Sun

Height: 4-6'

Width: 2-3'

Primary Bloom Colour: White/Cream

Secondary Bloom Colour: Red

Class: Evergreen

Type: Shrub

Bloom Time: Early Summer

Soil Moisture: Average

Stem Colour:

Fragrance:

Berries: No

Benefits: Bees

Deer Resistant: Unknown

BC Native: No

Native Habitat: Tropical and subtropical highlands.

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Geogrpahical Origin: Americas - Central and South America

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