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Floristic Inventory of the Florida Keys Database Online

Psidium guajava L.
Guava

Psidium guajava
Copyright by: Shirley Denton

Family: Myrtaceae

Group: Dicot

Substrate: Terrestrial

Habit: Tree

Perennation: Perennial

Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida

SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence: Present

SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status: Not Native, Naturalized

SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status: Cultivated

Comments: For more images, click on the Atlas of Vascular Plants link below.

FLORIDA KEYS Occurrence: Present

FLORIDA KEYS Native Status: Not Native, Naturalized

Map of select IRC data for the Florida Keys

Florida Keys History and Distribution: Reported in 1913 by John Kunkel Small for hammocks, pinelands and disturbed areas from the upper Keys to the lower Keys.  Cultivated and sparingly naturalized from the upper Keys to the lower Keys.

Other data on Psidium guajava available from :

Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants

Psidium guajava has been reported from the following 4 conservation areas in the FLORIDA KEYS :
Occurrence Native Status
Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammocks Botanical State Park Reported
Dry Tortugas National Park Presumed Extirpated Not Native, Cultivated Only
John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park Present Not Native, Cultivated Only
National Key Deer Refuge Possibly Extirpated Not Native, Naturalized




Psidium guajava has been reported for the following habitat in THE FLORIDA KEYS :
Disturbed Upland


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Psidium guajava
Copyright by: Shirley Denton
Psidium guajava
Copyright by: Forest & Kim Starr
Psidium guajava
Copyright by: Shirley Denton
Psidium guajava
Copyright by: Magha García Medina; Agrandar.