Campomanesia guaviroba (Dc.) Kiaersk.

A small tree. It loses many leaves during the year. It grows 6-12 m tall. The leaves are simple and oval. They can have fine hairs along the veins. The leaves are 4-13 cm long. The flowers occur singly in the axils of leaves. The flower stalks have fine hairs. The flowers are like guava. The fruit are oval or round. They are about 2.5 cm across. The fruit are yellow or orange. The fruit have a juicy, sweet pulp. They have a large disk at the top and calyx segments which remain on the fruit. The fruit has a thin skin with a wrinkled surface. The flesh is yellow and soft with several seeds inside.

It is a tropical plant. It grows naturally in the forest near the Atlantic in Brazil. In Argentina it grows below 1,00
 above sea level.

The fruit are eaten raw.

Plants are grown from seed. The seeds are collecting by shaking fruiting branches over canvas and then putting the fruit in plastic bags to partly decompose and washing out the seeds in running water. Seeds need to be planted fresh and are best in light shade. Seedlings emerge in 10-20 days.