Feijoa (Part 1)
This is evergreen tree or a bush with a branchy dense crone and silvery downy leaves, which lives in nature in damp subtropical and moderately warm parts of Southern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Northern Argentina. Mature plants can tolerate temperature to -12 °С and are steady against a drought. Numerous dark red stamens are longer, than pulpy petals, and attract birds.
Feijoa’s fruit is a green berry with a reddish shade. Pulp of mature fruits is dense, juicy, sour-sweet with a pleasant taste. Fruits are d in the raw and processed state. Feijoa is cultivated as a fruit and an ornamental plant in many countries.
The room feijoa enjoys big love and demand. Fruits are used in a raw state and also go for cooking of jams and high-quality confitures. Fruits fall down, when ripe.
There are a lot of feijoa varieties, which differ in productivity, form and taste of fruits.
Feijoa has oval leaves, average on size, gray-green, shining from above and densely downy, silvery from below.
A crop from one bush at tub-gardening makes 2-3 kg.