Summary
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:470. 1753
Verified:
03/23/1993
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
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Common names
English
common guava – guava – lemon guava – yellow guava – Afrikaans
koejawel – French
goyavier – German
Guave – Guavenbaum – Guayave – India (Hindi)
amrood – Japanese Rōmaji
banjirō – Portuguese
goiaba – goiabeiro – Portuguese (Brazil)
araçá-goiaba – araçá-guaçú – guaiaba – guaiava – Spanish
guayaba – guayabo – Swedish
guava –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Northern America | | Mexico | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Anguilla | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Antigua and Barbuda | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Bahamas | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Barbados | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Cuba | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Dominica | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Grenada | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Guadeloupe | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Hispaniola | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Jamaica | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Martinique | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Montserrat | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Netherlands Antilles | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Puerto Rico | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | St. Kitts and Nevis | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | St. Lucia | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | St. Vincent and Grenadines | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Trinidad and Tobago | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Belize | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Costa Rica | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Mesoamerica | El Salvador | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Guatemala | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Honduras | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Nicaragua | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Panama | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Northern South America | French Guiana | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Northern South America | Guyana | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Northern South America | Suriname | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Northern South America | Venezuela | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Paraguay | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Western South America | Bolivia | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Western South America | Colombia | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Western South America | Ecuador | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Western South America | Peru | | |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | |
4 | Naturalized | | | | | |
6 | Other | | | | | |
Native
Northern America
Southern America
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BRAZIL:
Brazil
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CARIBBEAN:
Hispaniola, Anguilla, Netherlands Antilles, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, Montserrat, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Vincent and Grenadines
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MESOAMERICA:
Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, El Salvador
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NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela
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SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Argentina, Paraguay
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WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Cultivated
()
Naturalized
()
Other
()
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Human food | beverage base | | Facciola, S. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. 1990 |
Human food | fruit | | Facciola, S. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. 1990 |
Materials | wood | | Weber, E. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. 2003 |
Medicines | folklore | | McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 |
Weed | potential seed contaminant | | Henderson, L. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12. 2001 |
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System.
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URL: https://ausgenebank.agriculture.vic.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=30205.
Accessed 5 October 2024.