Guavas don’t get as big as some other types of fruit trees. And they certainly get bigger in the tropics than they do here. The biggest guava tree I’ve ever seen was on a coffee farm in the Monteverde region of Costa Rica.
That said, I have seen some guava trees that are many decades old and of respectable size here in Southern California. A few years ago I encountered a small grove of such trees. This week I was in the area again so I got out my camera, and now I can show you what they look like.
November is within guava eating season. I hope you are enjoying some. This is one that I picked from a tree of about 50 years of age in my grandmother’s yard in the San Gabriel Valley.
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Aloha Greg,
Nice to see those old guava trees. We are harvesting our pineapple guava and mini lemon guava, making jams and freezing some in their pre jam state for future recipes. Very tasty and lots of vitamin C.
Mahalo,
Greg H
Love guavas…they make the best fruit leather.
I have an old guava tree but it makes small yellow fruit that taste pretty nasty. I eat a few, mostly the inner pudding, but not that tempting. The tree seems to be good at making little guava plants. I have tasted big, pretty good tasting guavas while walking around at UC Riverside. This tree isn’t like them.