Advice on root

[chrisafix23]

Hello everyone. I am asking for the community's advice on this. I have a potted guava in a 15gal container. I have noticed this root that comes up from below the plant and loops back down. My question is: should I prune this root? or should I just leave it?

The plant is doing well and I don't want to damage it permanently, but I also don't want for the root to girdle the plant later in its life. Photos below:

[K-Rimes]

I'd leave that alone for sure.

[brian]

Leave it, its fine.  And if you cut it will probably send up a ton of suckers.  I cut over similar looking roots from my guava and it never stops sprouting new growth from the cuts.

[Plantinyum]

I also have such roots on my guavas, from all my plants they seem to make the most visible shallow roots. I think that as the trunk at the base and the roots expand they will self graft at each touching point, as roots on most trees do...