Chilean guava also know as new zealand cranberry is a great plant to grow in containers. The fruits are delicious and red in colour tasting like strawberries and guava. You can also use the leaves to make an antioxidant rich tea :).
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These beautiful little fruits are Chile and guava and they grow in this nice Evergreen little shrub here and what’s cool as well as getting these beautiful little fruits that tastes like strawberries and guavas and sweet candy with a bit of tanginess in them you also
Get the leaves so you can make a Chile and guava leaf tea which was made traditionally by indigenous people in South America to treat quite a few different ailments and it’s been shown in studies that they’re very high in antioxidants as well so it’s a great plant all around that has multiple uses
And can easily be grown from cuttings as well
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Shame about their pest potential in NZ (and the threat of Myrtle rust!). It’s always a treat getting your content and learning about some of the more exotic plants you can actually find and grow here, since it’s inevitably followed by my father (a Botanist) going into detail about how bad of a pest they are when the topic comes up in conversation. The compromise is he gets some new specimens and a trial run of their pest potential while I go ahead and grow them anyway! Enjoy your Christmas and New year’s Kalem!
I don't suppose you can mail some cuttings? I can send you some dragonfruit, figs cuttings from the UK
Love all the Myrtaceae
thanks for the info……while you are beginning to enjoy summer…….morning temps at 17 degrees F here….USA…Merry Christmas and good health…
yum i love this shrub its a compact and smells divine! tastes like strawberry sherbet to me
Here in Chile it is called "murta" or "murtilla" and it is not so easy to grow since the plant prefers cold winters and cool summers
I imagine birds love them. Do pollinators like the flowers ?
Makes awesome jelly jam too!
I wish you would sell seeds dude.
Good morning and Merry Christmas
Looks like a lily pily, from Australia. Are they related?
Could you make a video on some of the easiest plants to put into a home garden not plants like tomatoes or anything like that but non traditional plants like these I would love to have some information
Thank you for posting this. New found interest. Good algorithm.. good algorithm.. lol
Fruit name plz