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pineapple guava

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Noun1.pineapple guava - dark-green kiwi-sized tropical fruit with white flesh; used chiefly for jellies and preserves
edible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh
feijoa, feijoa bush - South American shrub having edible greenish plumlike fruit
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Determination of promising native Feijoa (Feijoa sellowiana Berg.) genotypes from Sakarya Region in Turkey.
Efeito do estiolamento parcial e do acido indolbutirico (IBA) no enraizamento de estacas de ramos de goiabeira serrana (Feijoa sellowiana, Berg).
Determination of macro-micro nutrient contents in dried fruit and leaves and some pomological characteristics of selected feijoa genotypes (Feijoa sellowiana Berg.) from Sakarya provinces in Turkey.
Bioactive products from fruit of the feijoa (Feijoa sellowiana, Myrtaceae): a review.
Feijoa sellowiana Berg is cultivated as a non-timber forest tree in New Zealand, Colombia and France, and is well known for its high dietary value fruit.
Several studies have emphasized the antioxidant activity of species belonging to the Myrtaceae family such as Feijoa sellowiana (Weston, 2010), Psidium guajava (Tachakittirungrod et al., 2007), and Eucalyptus rostrata (Okamura et al., 1993).
Certain Brazilian species, such as the Amazonian palm berry or 'acai' (Euterpe oleracea Mart.), soursop or 'graviola' (Annona muricata L.), Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa H.B.K.), cashew (Anacardium occidentale L.) and pineapple guava or 'feijoa' (Feijoa sellowiana Berg.), seem to be rich polyphenol sources.
Morfogenesis in vitro de Feijoa sellowiana. Memorias del III Encuentro Latinoamericano de Biotecnologia Vegetal.
This study was conducted to determine some pomological characteristics and macro- micro nutrient contents of both leaves and fruits of 11 Feijoa genotypes (Feijoa sellowiana Berg.) selected from Sakarya Province in Turkey.