Psidium spp.
Palikir, Pohnpei:
Scanned in laboratory, source Upper Mwalok:
Future work: Better imaging, determination of species. Open for improvement.
Location collected: Upper Mwalok
Date collected: December 01,1999
Collected by: Morthy Solomon
- Genus species:
- Family:
- English name: Guava
- Chuukese name: kuapa
- Kosraen name:kuhfahfah
- Pohnpeian name:kuahpa
- Yapese name:kuawa
- Growth form:tree
- Growth location:terrestrial
- Growth environment:grows wild on the island
- Growth zone: Tropical
- Average heigth:10-12 meters
- Stem: woody, smooth
- Leaf arrangement: simple, opposite
- Stipule: present
- Petiole:0.5-1.0 cm.
- Leaf blade:greenish in color,2-4cm.long
- Inflorescence: raceme
- Floral bracts: not present
- Flower: grows adjacent from the fruit and white in color ,rotationally symmetrical
- Calyx: not present
- Corolla: white anterior green posterior, three lobes
- Stamens: not present
- Ovary: is interior
- Pistil: white pistil sticking from the young fruit
- Fruit: green round fruit
- Seed: located in fruit
- Anything else: most amazing fruit with its flowering position
- Cultural usage: for consumption, medicinal uses(diarrhea)