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.
