🍓 Strawberry Guava for best Margaritas - the easiest fruit tree you'll ever grow!

• 🍓 If you're looking for a cold-hardy tropical fruit tree that thrives on neglect, you’ve found it: Strawberry Guava, or Cattley Guava (Psidium littorale). It's our favorite Guava at Top Tropicals!
• 🍓 This fast-growing, evergreen small tree or dense bush doesn’t mind poor soil, limestone, or salt. It’s hardy to the low 20s F, drought-tolerant once established, and can even handle short-term flooding. Great as a hedge, windbreak, or container specimen, it also adds beauty year-round with glossy green leaves, peeling reddish bark, and soft red new growth.
• 🍓 You’ll get round, tangy-sweet fruit from spring through fall - perfect for snacking, jams, or jellies, juices, and adding to all kinds of drinks, especially Margaritas and Mojitos! 🍸
• 🍓 The red and yellow types are both tasty, with the yellow often a bit larger and sweeter. The sweetest and the most flavorful Cattley Guava variety is Hawaiian Gold - Psidium littorale var. Lucidum. This one is our favorite for eating out of hand!
• 🍓 Cattley Guava is productive, low-maintenance, and ornamental - one of the easiest tropical fruit trees to grow in poor or alkaline soils.

📚 Learn more:

• Favorite Guava fruit for eating fresh
• Top 10 fast-fruiting trees: #2. Cattley and Tropical guava
• How to always have lots of Guava Juice

🍉 Guava beats banana in the potassium game

• 🍉Everyone talks about bananas when it comes to potassium, but guava (Tropical Guava - Psidium guajava) quietly beats them! One cup of guava packs around 688 milligrams of potassium, compared to about 450 in a banana!
• 🍉Potassium is essential for strong bones, steady blood pressure, muscle function, and a healthy nervous system. Adults need between 2,600 and 3,400 mg daily, according to the National Institute of Health - so adding guava to your fruit bowl is a smart move.
• 🍉Guavas are common across the tropics - from Mexico to the Caribbean - with green or yellow skin and beautiful pink or off-white flesh. Sweet, aromatic, and easy to grow in warm climates, guava is one tropical fruit that truly earns its place in the garden and on your plate.

📚 Learn more:

• Six guava varieties that will keep you picking year-round
• How to grow a Guava Tree: Practical Guide to Growing Guava
• More about #Guava

Zero Sugar fruit: forget lemonade - new perfect summer drink discovered!

• 🍋 Costa Rican Guava, or Cas Guava (Psidium friedrichsthalianum) is the boldest fruit you can grow for refreshing drinks. Its flavor is sharp, tangy, and unforgettable - perfect for anyone who loves acidic fruit. Cas Guava has sugar at all, unless you decide to add some.
• 🍋 The trees are super prolific - even young ones fruit heavily, and we make gallons of juice at Top Tropicals.
• 🍋 The best part? You can freeze the fruit or boil it into a concentrate with a bit of sugar. That drink lasts in the fridge for months without going bad, thanks to Cas Guava’s natural antibacterial punch.
• 🍋 Cas Guava juice is Costa Rica’s traditional Agua de Cas - tart, refreshing, and perfect for summer heat. And if you save enough, you’ll still be sipping it through the winter.

♨️ Agua de Cas Quick Recipe

• Boil halved fruits in water with sugar to taste
• Simmer 5-10 minutes, let sit, then mash the softened fruit to release all the flavor
• Strain through a colander, bottle, and refrigerate - just dilute with water when serving

✔️ Why choose Cas Guava?

• • Packed with vitamin C - four times more than lemons - for a powerful immune boost.
• • Rich in antioxidants to combat stress and inflammation.
• • Hardy and low-maintenance, thriving in poor soils and resisting pests.

📚 Learn more:

• • What is the best fruit for summer drinks and wine?
• •  What fruit is more sour and has more vitamin C than a lemon
• •  What fruit can you drink? Costa Rican Cas is the Guava for Drinking
• •  Costa Rican Guava

What fruit can you drink? Costa Rican Cas is the Guava for Drinking, yet with a bonus of health benefits!

• The fruit of Cas Guava (Psidium friedrichsthalianum) has unusual tart flavor with passionfruit and pineapple tones, more pronounced than common Guava🍍
• Cas Guava used in pies, salads, fresh juices, ice-cream, jams, and as a base for the refreshing drink Fresco de Cas!🍹
• High pectin content makes firm jellies.
• Hydrating and low glycemic index, suitable for those mindful of sugar consumption.
• Rich source of fiber, vitamin C, antioxidants, phosphorus, potassium, copper, vitamin A, and folic acid.
• This small tree or bush is very fast growing and undemanding, usually pest free (unlike most Guavas that can be very bugsy).
• Tolerates hot summers and short frosts, appreciates well-drained soils.
• Easy to grow, drought-tolerant once established, suitable for container cultivation.
• Seedlings start flowering and fruiting at a young age, typically 2-3 years old from seed.

• Psidium littorale, also known as Cattley Guava, is a charming small tropical fruit tree.
• Round fruits offer a unique culinary experience with a sweet and tangy flavor, perfect for various dishes and drinks.
• Surprisingly cold-hardy, it adds both beauty and flavor to any landscape.
• Ideal for containers
• A must-have for fruit lovers seeking a tropical treat.
• One tree can bring enough fruit for making a delicious, aromatic, refreshing Guava juice for the whole family during Summer months. Just put the fruit in a blender, add some water, ice and sugar and enjoy!