Unless you have planted or inherited a strawberry guava tree in your yard, chances are you will never experience it’s exotic, tropical flavor. Like the common guava (a la guava jelly), the fruit is ...

Here’s a tropical fruit that’s an ideal addition to any home garden in Costa Rica. I’m referring to the strawberry guava (Psidium cattleianum) or cas dulce, as it is called in Costa Rica. Most folks ...

The state is once again seeking approval to release a Brazilian scale insect into Hawaii forests to control the spread of the popular but environmentally needy strawberry guava tree. The state ...

When strong winds blew through Maui in February, Jan Yokoyama was out in the orchard behind her house collecting 1,500 pounds of green mangoes that dropped from the trees. The sudden windfall meant ...

The estimated cost of the proposed release of Tectococcus ovatus to combat the spread of strawberry guava includes $1.2 million for research, "a few thousand" to breed and release the insect and "a ...

US Forest Service scientists with the Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry have submitted a proposal to release a Brazilian insect to control the spread of strawberry guava, a South American tree ...

The next time you’re on vacation in Hawaii, look for the strawberry guava. If you see a lot of them, it’s a decent bet you’re amid the greenery on one of the tropical archipelago’s younger, less ...

Fruit trees. Consider planting a guava tree. Make sure it’s a tropical guava (Psidium guajava) and not a pineapple guava (Feijoa sellowiana) or a strawberry guava (Psidium callleianum). The latter two ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - If you’re a fan of protein, Guava Smoked might suit your needs. Some 600 pounds of meat passes through their smoker on a weekly basis. Scott Shibuya started ...

There’s a little, green, egg-shaped fruit at Whole Foods selling for $1.99 apiece. It’s a feijoa, also called a pineapple guava, and it’s delicious. You slice it open, scoop out its pale, juicy flesh ...