🚨 Back in stock — Psidium sartorianum 🚨 (Vulnerable species)

[huertasurbanas]

Meet Psidium sartorianum — the little guava with big potential — now available ready to ship from our USA partner. Perfect for collectors, home growers, and anyone who loves weirdly delicious fruit.

Why you’ll want this in your garden:

🍋 Compact & productive: great for pots or small tropical/subtropical yards.

🍋 Flavorful fruit: sweet, aromatic guava-like flesh — excellent fresh, in jams, or juices.

🍋 Easygoing grower: adaptable to varied soils and forgiving in warm climates.

🍋 Unique & rare: different from common guava — a lovely addition for diversity.

☕ Bonus: the leaves make a superb tea.
Brewed fresh, Psidium sartorianum leaves produce a fragrant, mellow infusion — widely regarded as one of the most flavorful teas among Psidium species. Try it hot or iced; a simple steep (1–2 tsp dried leaves per cup, 5–7 min) brings out floral, slightly sweet notes — lovely with a touch of honey or a slice of lemon.

💥 Available NOW — no waiting, no pre-order.
Shipments handled from our USA partner for faster domestic delivery. Quantities are limited — snag yours before this batch is gone!

👇 How to get one:

• Or order directly via the link on our shop — shipping from the USA

https://www.huertasurbanas.com/product/psidium-sartorianum-the-little-guava-with-big-potential-pre-order-available/


Let’s keep rare fruit alive and tasty — one guava at a time. 🌿🍈


By the way, Paraguayan guava is back on stock too: https://www.huertasurbanas.com/product/paraguayan-tropical-guava/

[smitchell7]

Interesting, I think it was listed as a vulnerable species in 2023 under its synonym psidium minutifolium. Wouldn't be surprised if it's endangered now.

[huertasurbanas]

Interesting, I think it was listed as a vulnerable species in 2023 under its synonym psidium minutifolium. Wouldn't be surprised if it's endangered now.

Good find — you’re basically correct, but a couple of details are worth tightening up.
The species is listed as Vulnerable (VU) on the IUCN Red List under the name Psidium minutifolium / Psidium minutiflorum.
Taxonomic sources (Kew, POWO, etc.) treat those names as synonyms of Psidium sartorianum, so linking them makes sense.
The IUCN record itself shows a publication date of 2024, so it’s safer to say “recently assessed/listed (IUCN 2024) as Vulnerable” rather than pin it strictly to 2023 — the assessment may have been completed in 2023 but published later.

Sources:
• IUCN Red List entry for Psidium minutifolium/minutiflorum (Vulnerable).
• Kew/POWO and other taxonomic references listing those names as synonyms of Psidium sartorianum.

[brad]

Do you happen to know if it will cross with Psidium littorale?

[huertasurbanas]

Do you happen to know if it will cross with Psidium littorale?

I dont know, but... Psidium littorale is usually treated as a synonym of Psidium cattleianum (strawberry/cattley guava). Interspecific crosses within the genus Psidium have been done (e.g. breeding work involving P. guajava and P. cattleianum), and published studies investigate sexual compatibility and hybrid confirmation among Psidium species. However, I couldn’t find a clear, peer-reviewed record or verified report of a confirmed hybrid specifically between P. sartorianum and P. littorale/cattleianum.

If you want to test it yourself: try hand pollination (emasculate flowers of the seed parent, apply fresh pollen from the putative pollen parent, label flowers, and track fruit/seed set). Watch for flowering overlap and check seed viability; molecular markers (SSR) are used in the literature to confirm hybrids when you need certainty. If your goal is to combine traits for cultivation, grafting onto a compatible rootstock (or grafting varieties onto each other) is often a simpler, reliable route.