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The leaves are quite hairy (particularly underneath), but I don't know if that matters. I've used the leaves of the, related, Strawberry Guava (
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cheers Darrel
It does fruit, but only it seems during heat wave years so nothing delicious to report this year. 🥲
The fluffiness of the back of the leaves is what reminds me of the evergreen magnolia. They dry out enough when they fall to make great botanicals, particularly for a nano tank where a big leaf looks strange and takes up too much space. I’ll add the pineapple guava and the strawberry guava to our list of safe botanicals! Haven’t come across the strawberry variety, will keep my eye out.
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Just collected a big bag of these pineapple guava leaves. This handful has quite big ones, but most are max 5cm and some only 2cm long!
The tree in question
Next to the tree in
paradise corner is a loquat in a pot, so nabbed a few of those too. They just drop a few every now and again. The leaves are massive which is great for big tanks or just contrasting with the tiny ones. Very similar to the grandiflora magnolia, but a bit more ribbed
On my walk back to the office I came across this
Magnolia Campbellii which has such an abundance of great leaves underneath i managed to completely fill my bag…
Hopefully we have a few more dry days where I can collect more for the year and a few ukaps goody bags, got those who don’t mind a free little slug or two.
The fish will be very happy with me tonight
🙂