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Help Identifying this Guava?

 
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Moved into a house last year that has a number of fruit trees on it. The fruit of this guava were old and shriveled last year, so this is my first time seeing it make fruit. From what I’ve researched, it looks like a strawberry guava, although it appears the fruit stay green? I’m in zone 9b California, so I would imagine the fruit are pretty close to mature at this point.

Would appreciate if anyone has any idea what type of guava it is. From what I’ve read, pretty much all guava are edible, but not all are palatable.

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What color is the flesh?

Are those mature guava?
 
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Those fruit are still quite immature, so hard to say just yet. They'll probably swell up a bit and only color change right before ripening.

Of the common ones, strawberry guava sounds pretty likely. The leaves look a bit wide for lemon guava (a subspecies or variety of strawberry guava) and they don't have the deep venation that a lot of the more tropical guavas usually have. Probably have to wait and see what color the fruit turn.
 
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