Unknown Red Skin & Flesh Guava from Vietnam

[xshen]

Does anyone know what type of guava this is?  The photos and fruit were taken from a seedling grown in Vietnam.  Both the skin and flesh is deep red and it does not look like the common Malaysian magenta guava that is readily available from home depot.

[Mike T]

I have  seen plenty of guavas in my time but never one like that.

The red ones like Malaysian that also have red suffused through the foliage are not good to eat.My one volunteered for mulch patrol aftertheir first fruiting.

[nullzero]

Very attractive looking fruit, love the tones of red.

[davidgarcia899]

Ya, thats a beauty! what is that?

[Future]

Beauty indeed.

[gnappi]

Does anyone know what type of guava this is?  The photos and fruit were taken from a seedling grown in Vietnam.  Both the skin and flesh is deep red and it does not look like the common Malaysian magenta guava that is readily available from home depot.

I've been a guava lover for years, and a customer of HD and I've never seen anything but pink guava there. Anyone have a source in southeast Fla?

[kh0110]

xshen, how about more pictures outdoor under normal lighting? I think you have a winner here.

[xshen]

xshen, how about more pictures outdoor under normal lighting? I think you have a winner here.

I wish I have this guava on hand.  They are not my pictures.  Someone else took them and sent them to me.  I'm trying to get some seeds.

[kh0110]

I wish I have this guava on hand.  They are not my pictures.  Someone else took them and sent them to me.  I'm trying to get some seeds.

Scions would be the way to go as guava seeds are quite often worse than F1 atemoya seeds in terms of variability. I would try to get budwoods instead. Just my own experience.

[afriadoni]

Deep red leaves , deep reed stem , deep red fruit skinned and flesh , it has sweet flavour when its over ripe ...  Who was said it has bad taste ? 

[huertasurbanas]

great xshen! I hope you could get seeds and scions, grow it and share it! I grow many varieties of guavas, and I would like to grow these one too, cheers!

[NathanC]

The HD closest to me also sells red malaysian in the spring.

[xshen]

The HD closest to me also sells red malaysian in the spring.

I have the malaysian magenta guava and this doesn't looke like the malaysian.

great xshen! I hope you could get seeds and scions, grow it and share it! I grow many varieties of guavas, and I would like to grow these one too, cheers!

I am still working on that!  I am really hoping to get some seeds.  Scions are out of the question.

[kh0110]

Pictures could be very deceiving with lightings. Check the Sugar Dragon Fruit thread, you'll see the drastic differences between two different lightings.

[bangkok]

Today i also have seen this guave and the tree. The fruits were sold out so i couldn't taste it. The tree has also wine-red leaves.

[bangkok]

Deep red leaves , deep reed stem , deep red fruit skinned and flesh , it has sweet flavour when its over ripe ...  Who was said it has bad taste ?

So you ate them allready in Indonesia? What is sweet? I never had a really sweet guava, even not the one that's pink inside was really sweet, just a little bit.

[Coconut]

Dont kill yourself chasing after it or grow it.  I gave trees to several pomologist breeder friends in Davie & Miami five years ago  & saw some of them this thanksgiving, I can say it was awful; and he was right  my fruit last summer was awful, the worst tasting guava I have grown subly sweet but nothing else lacking all imagination. So what it got bloody red stem and pretty red flowers and reddish leaves, I chop my two trees down five months ago in frustration after producing tasteless fruits the sevond year in a row, my cas & brazilian guava taste better even thought they are tart as hell, you know its a guava. A cousin in law from Vietnam told me they are grown in the delta & nha trang area by Buddhist Monks more as a bonsai ornament than a tasteless watery fruit with no asset going for it in my backyard. I think I gave ten of them away over the years and I dont recall anyone kept them after the second year of fruiting; it was an embarassing for me even to rave about its beauty, but at some point it didnot fit my edible landscape any longer. I kept it for years next to my vietnamese sap coconut and this vietnamese guava and it sinbling under Boca Chewy sugar wAs use for guava leave tea:  dam you could gotten this for free two trees in five gallons about five feet tall five months ago!😩 oh well nothing to cried about, an unproductive tasteless mushy fruit not worth breeding let alone growth.😎  I finally spray roundup on their trunk after they keep sprouting back and shading out my young Lucangosteen trees.😤