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Psidium cattleianum
Psidium Cattleianum
Appreciated as a dessert, it can be eaten fresh or used to make jams, jellies and sorbets. The cuisine of Reunion has made it a popular ingredient, also accommodating in meat dishes. The fruit is fragile but can still travel if it is carefully packaged and refrigerated.
The guava juice can be vinified. A Reunionese company has created a sparkling drink according to the Champagne method.
Wood
The guava wood of China is dense, homogeneous and yet flexible. The larger pieces can be worked or turned in the manner of boxwood, but it is especially the guava poles that are used for various purposes.
They are perfectly suitable for their strong resistance without excessive stiffness, as tool handles. They can be intertwined to make fascines used to hold the soil. They have been used in the rural habitat for making roofs, racks, etc. They can be parboiled, shaped and assembled for the manufacture of neo-rustic furniture, in the manner of chestnut poles.
Various
In La Réunion, the commune of la Plaine-des-Palmistes puts its ecotourism development on handicrafts made from this species, whether it be culinary preparations, alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverages and wooden objects. .
A sparkling Guava tree was created recently.
Appreciated as a dessert, it can be eaten fresh or used to make jams, jellies and sorbets. The cuisine of Reunion has made it a popular ingredient, also accommodating in meat dishes. The fruit is fragile but can still travel if it is carefully packaged and refrigerated.
The guava juice can be vinified. A Reunionese company has created a sparkling drink according to the Champagne method.
Wood
The guava wood of China is dense, homogeneous and yet flexible. The larger pieces can be worked or turned in the manner of boxwood, but it is especially the guava poles that are used for various purposes.
They are perfectly suitable for their strong resistance without excessive stiffness, as tool handles. They can be intertwined to make fascines used to hold the soil. They have been used in the rural habitat for making roofs, racks, etc. They can be parboiled, shaped and assembled for the manufacture of neo-rustic furniture, in the manner of chestnut poles.
Various
In La Réunion, the commune of la Plaine-des-Palmistes puts its ecotourism development on handicrafts made from this species, whether it be culinary preparations, alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverages and wooden objects. .
A sparkling Guava tree was created recently.