Pineapple Guava, Feijoa Sellowiana, Tree 20 seeds Pineapple Guava, Feijoa sellowiana, Tree Seeds Evergreen, Showy Flowers, Edible Fragrant Fruits, Attracts Birds, Wildlife Food/Shelter, Espalier, Hedge/Screen, Windbreak Native to Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, the Pineapple Guava is a slow growing evergreen shrub that can reach 15 feet high and 15 feet wide. In addition to the fruit it provides, the shrub also doubles handsomely as a landscape specimen. When planted close together, the shrubs make a nice hedge, screen, or windbreak. Pineapple Guava can also be espaliered or trained as a small tree with one or more trunks. The bark is pale gray and the spreading branches are swollen at the nodes and white-hairy when young. The wood is dense, hard and brittle. The evergreen, thick, leathery leaves of the Pineapple Guava are opposite, short-petioled and bluntly elliptical.The best way to harvest is to allow them to fall from the tree. Giving the tree a shake and gathering the fruit from the ground every couple of days is the usual method of harvesting. To keep the fruit from bruising, place a tarp or other large cloth under the tree to catch them as they fall. The fruit can also be picked when firm and mature and allowed to ripen at room temperature, although the quality will not be as good as tree ripened fruit. Mature fruit can be stored in the refrigerator for about a week. The fruit are mainly eaten fresh as a dessert or in salads but can also be cooked in puddings, pies, etc. After peeling, the fruit should be immediately dipped into water containing fresh lemon juice to prevent the flesh from turning brown. Pineapple Guava is hardy to 10 F and does best where the winters are cool and the summers moderate with temperatures between 80 to 90 F. It is generally adapted to areas where temperatures stay above 15 F. To produce fruit, it needs 100-200 chilling hours below 45 F. Heat stress in the summer may cause them to drop fruit prematurely. Our seeds/bulbs are guaranteed to be fresh but are NOT guaranteed as to results. Sorry, but there are too many variables in gardening that can impact germination. Flower seeds/bulbs are a live organism. Their germination depends on many factor including heat, cooling, sun, shade, moisture, time of sowing, etc. None of these things We can control so We can not be held responsible for them. So please do not ask for a refund, replacement or to return unused seeds/bulbs.