It is also known as Sweet Guava. Psidium guajava is a species belonging to the Myrtaceae family, its distribution occurs in the altitude range between 50 meters above sea level and 2040 meters above sea level in the departments of Amazonas, Antioquia, Boyacá, Caldas, Caquetá, Cauca, Cundinamarca, Huila, Magdalena, Meta, Nariño, Putumayo, Santander, Tolima and Valle. (UNAL, 2022).
An arboreal species, it can reach heights of up to 10 m. It has simple leaves, light green in color, against the light throughout the leaf blade you can see glandular points very characteristic of the Myrtaceae family. Its bark is smooth and comes off easily, solitary flowers arranged in clusters, dark green or yellow globular berry fruits when ripe.
It is a fast-growing species, like most species of the Myrtaceae family, it is very attractive to fauna: bees, birds and mammals are completely attracted by its fruits and flowers, not to mention that it is widely cultivated by humans because of its fruit.
(bees)
Various species of bats, mammals, and birds are frequently seen visiting this tree. A specific pollinator is not identified because it is a fairly diverse species in terms of the fauna that visits it, however, among the most important that it receives are bees, whose populations are currently increasingly depleted.