Guayas Fruit Live Plant (Talisia Oliviformis)

Guayas is a very interesting, rare, and self pollinating fruit tree.  The tree is harvested from the wild for its edible fruits.  This green tropical fruit is not known very much out of the tropics. Huaya fruit or plural “huayas” is a small green  round fruit with a large seed surrounded by salmon colored soft flesh. The fruit has a soft shell on it that can easily be opened by squeezing your fingers together.  It has a sweet sour mixed flvour, The fruit is likened to lychees, rambutan and longan. Even though these similar fruits are from Asia, huaya indigenous on northern South America, Central America and the tropics.

Common Name: Guayas, Huaya fruit, plural “huayas

Botanical Name: Talisia Oliviformis

Bloom Time/Fruiting: 3 to 4 Years

Maintenance Required: Moderate