The guava is a guava, a tropical fruit.
Myrtle family guava shrubs or small trees, the plant is 10 meters high, the bark is gray and smooth, covered with gray and brown patches; young branches 4-angled, pilose; leaves are round or oval, dark green and rough, veins are very dark; flowers are solitary or form a cyme, the petals are white; the berry globular, ovoid or pear-shaped, the pulp is white and yellow, the flesh is light red; the seeds are numerous in the summer. Flesh light red; seeds numerous, flowering in summer.
Guava and pomegranate do not have any "relatives", pomegranate is a pomegranate plant. The guava is a plant of the family Guava. The guava is named after its fruit, which resembles a pocket-sized pomegranate and originates from South America, a country outside of China. After the geographic discovery, guava was brought to Asia by Europeans, Southeast Asia and China, Taiwan, Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Hong Kong, Guangxi, southern Yunnan and southern Sichuan are cultivated or have been wild, born in the wasteland or low hills, can withstand -4 ℃ of low temperature.
Introduction of morphological characteristics of guava:
Tree, up to 13 meters high; bark smooth, gray, flaky peeling; shoots angular, hairy. Leaf blade leathery, oblong to elliptic, 6 to 12 centimeters long, 3.5 to 6 centimeters wide, apex acute or obtuse, base nearly rounded, slightly rough above, hairy below, lateral veins 12 to 15 pairs, often sunken, reticulate veins obvious; petiole 5 millimeters long.
Flowers solitary or 2 to 3 in cymes; calyx tube bell-shaped, 5 mm long, hairy, calyx cap suborbicular, 7 to 8 mm long, irregularly fissured; petals 1 to 1.4 cm long, white; stamens 6 to 9 mm long; ovary inferior, united with the calyx, the styles as long as the stamens. Berry spherical, ovoid or pear-shaped, 3 to 8 cm long, with persistent sepals at the tip, flesh white and yellow, placenta plump, fleshy, light red; seeds numerous.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Guava