Psidium guajava L is commonly known as guave, govave or govavier in French;

guave, Guavenbaum, Guavave in German; banjiro in Japanese; goiaba, goiabeiro in Portugal;

araçá-goiaba, araçá-guaçú, araçá-guaiava in Brazil; guayaba, guayabo in Español, fan shi liu

in Chinese and guava in English (Gutiérrez, Mitchell, & Solis, 2008).

Guava or Psidium guajava is a tropical plant from Myrtaceae family that can grow up

to 15m tall with thin, smooth, patchy peeling bark where most produced in India, Brazil,

Egypt, South Africa Columbia and USA. It is known that there are two types of guava: the

red (P. guajava var. pomifera) and the white (P. guajava var. pyrifera) and both possessed

medicinal uses. Guava tree can reach until 15m, meanwhile, leaves are 2 to 6 inches long and

1 to 2 inches wide, short-petiolate, blade oval with prominent pinnate veins. Guava leaves

appeared to be dull-green with stiff but coriaceous with pronounced veins when being crush.

Guava flowers are showy with whitish petal up to 2cm long along with numerous stamens.

Furthermore, guava fruits are appeared to be yellowish to ovoid berry about 5cm in diameter

with an edible pink mesocarp that contained numerous small hard white seeds (Joseph &

Priya, 2011; Barbalho, Farinazzi-Machado, 2012; Biswas, Rogers, McLaughlin, Daniels, &

Yadav, 2013; Sharma, et al., 2017).

RANK : SCIENTIFIC NAME

Kingdom : Plantae

Division : Magnoliophyta

Class : Magnoliopsida

Subclass : Rosidae
Order : Myrtales

Family : Myrtaceae

Subfamily : Myrtoideae

Genus : Psidium L.

Species : Psidium guajava L

(Herbst, 2001)

Figure 1: The flower of Psidium guajava Linn. Adapted from

https://www.feedipedia.org/content/guava-psidium-guajava-inflorescence
Figure 2: The fruit of Psidium guajava Linn. Adapted from https://www.pelledolce.com/wp-

content/uploads/Guava-Psidium-guajava-Linn...jpg

Figure 3: The leaves of Psidium guajava Linn. Adapted from http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-

dvC77AbdGK8/T2bEsC3jJnI/AAAAAAAAAQg/FO5-BlcESoQ/s1600/guava+leaves.jpg