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Cas botanical plate
Plate · drawn for the register, 2026Psidium friedrichsthalianum
Fruit

Cas

Psidium friedrichsthalianum (O.Berg) Nied.
Southern Mexico to South America

A shrub or small tree of the guava family native to wet tropical forest from Mexico to Peru and Brazil. Known in Costa Rica as cas, or sour guava, it is grown for its acid fruit, which the Spanish names 'guayaba agria' and 'cas ácida' describe.

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1carrying a tag
0sponsored
FamilyMyrtaceae
Spanish nameCas
Also known asCosta Rican guava, Cas ácida, Guayaba agria, Guayaba de monte, Arrayán
Native toSouthern Mexico through Central America to tropical South America, including Costa Rica
TagGarden areaZonePlantedStatusSponsoredNote
236South OrchardB17 June 2016Healthy—

0 of these have no tag yet; they will be numbered when the garden team re-tags the estate.

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