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Native Guava

Native Guava

Rhodomyrtus psidioides

Family Myrtaceae

Critically Endangered (Myrtle Rust)

About

Listed among Nerang National Park's conservation-significant flora, this fast-growing rainforest regenerator has been driven to critically endangered status by myrtle rust disease across eastern Australia.

How to spot it

Glossy ovate to elliptic leaves with pineapple-like fragrance and stickiness when crushed, white or pink flowers, yellow fleshy edible berries.

Found in

  • Nerang Conservation Park/Nerang National Park

Source: Wikipedia - Nerang National Park / Rhodomyrtus psidioides

Photo: Zaareo (CC BY-SA 3.0) via Wikimedia Commons