San Jose, CA. She said she had it as a small shrub and it continued to grow and grow and then just a few years ago it started producing hundreds of these. She has a huge critter problem but they never touch these! It is pretty close to a lemon plant so not sure if that could play a part. Cracked one open with a rock and it didn’t smell sweet or edible. She says they never bloom or change color just fall off all over.
by Curious-Title7737
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Feijoa! Delicious when ripe. *Acca sellowiana.* Any local New Zealanders will be delighted to be offered some and will tell you all about them.
First photo has two different fruits/plants. Mock Orange and Feijoa. Only Feijoa is edible
These are also called Pineapple Guava. I used to eat these growing up!
They do this. We had one of these pineapple guava bushes for about five years and it did absolutely nothing. Last it erupted with a metric fuckton of these little fruits. At first, it’s kind ofcool. They taste good but they don’t last long and there’s not much you can do with them. I made jam, gave it to all the neighbors. This year it came back with even more of vengeance. I couldn’t keep up. It basically turned into a rat and squirrel feeder. I have no use for the fruit and I’ve been filling buckets up to go to compost. Any New Zealander near me is welcome to as much as they want. This nuisance of a bush is coming down this winter.
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With feijoas, you wait until the fruit falls off the tree before eating them. If you live in a fruit fly area, pick up the fruit and let them sit for a few days before eating, to give any larvae time to get big enough to see.
Re: suddenly fruiting after a few years of no fruit, most feijoa are not self fertile so need another tree nearby. It could be that your neighbours planted one recently, thereby helping you out
Pineapple guava. You are lucky.