The Acca sellowiana 'White Goose' is a premium, vigorous variety of feijoa highly prized by home gardeners for its exceptionally large, sweet, and aromatic fruit. This hardy evergreen shrub or small tree features beautiful and striking red-and-white ornamental flowers with edible petals. Upright, bushy, and vigorous. It is partially self-fertile, meaning it will produce fruit on its own. However, cross-pollination with another feijoa variety nearby will significantly increase your overall crop yield and fruit size.
Fruit Colour: Light green or pale green skin with soft, juicy yellow-cream or translucent white fruit/pulp.
Fruit Shape: Oval-shaped
Fruit Size: Large, smooth-skinned, weighing around 90 grams
Flavour: Juicy, rich tropical flavor blending notes of pineapple, guava, and strawberry.
Fruit Season: Mid-to-late autumn (typically April to May). The fruit is ready when it naturally drops to the ground.
Cropping Habit: Excellent, reliable, and heavy cropping habit. It is widely considered a highly productive variety for both backyards and commercial orchards.. Prune lightly after the autumn harvest to maintain shape and encourage new fruiting wood.
Best Uses: Easy backyard orchard tree/ fresh eating, baking, preserves, edible flowers, children’s gardens, privacy hedging and screening, windbreak, container planting, wildlife-attractor.
Light requirement: Full sun
Water requirement: Moderate
Watering frequency: Regular during establishment; occasional deep watering once established
Soil: Prefers rich, well-draining soil. Provide regular, consistent water while the tree is establishing and during fruit development to ensure juicy yields.
Skill level: Beginner
Growth rate: Moderate
Suitable for container gardens: Yes
Mature Height: 3-4m
Mature Width: 2-3m
Seasonality: Evergreen
Drought Tolerant: Highly drought-tolerant once established,
Frost Tolerant: Frost-hardy once mature.
Wind Tolerant: Highly wind-tolerant
Leaf colour: Glossy, dark olive-green, while the underside is covered in a dense, felt-like silvery-white fuzz.
Leaf Variegation pattern: No
Size of leaf: 3-8cmin length and 2-4cm in width.
Flower: Highly distinctive, resembling a burst of tropical fireworks against its silvery foliage. Each blossom features thick, cupped, and fleshy petals which are snow-white on the outside and blushed with a soft pinkish-purple on the inside; exploding from the centre of the petals is a dense, brush-like cluster of roughly 25 to 30 vivid, crimson-red stamens.
The Acca sellowiana 'White Goose' is a premium, vigorous variety of feijoa highly prized by home gardeners for its exceptionally large, sweet, and aromatic fruit. This hardy evergreen shrub or small tree features beautiful and striking red-and-white ornamental flowers with edible petals. Upright, bushy, and vigorous. It is partially self-fertile, meaning it will produce fruit on its own. However, cross-pollination with another feijoa variety nearby will significantly increase your overall crop yield and fruit size.
Fruit Colour: Light green or pale green skin with soft, juicy yellow-cream or translucent white fruit/pulp.
Fruit Shape: Oval-shaped
Fruit Size: Large, smooth-skinned, weighing around 90 grams
Flavour: Juicy, rich tropical flavor blending notes of pineapple, guava, and strawberry.
Fruit Season: Mid-to-late autumn (typically April to May). The fruit is ready when it naturally drops to the ground.
Cropping Habit: Excellent, reliable, and heavy cropping habit. It is widely considered a highly productive variety for both backyards and commercial orchards.. Prune lightly after the autumn harvest to maintain shape and encourage new fruiting wood.
Best Uses: Easy backyard orchard tree/ fresh eating, baking, preserves, edible flowers, children’s gardens, privacy hedging and screening, windbreak, container planting, wildlife-attractor.
Light requirement: Full sun
Water requirement: Moderate
Watering frequency: Regular during establishment; occasional deep watering once established
Soil: Prefers rich, well-draining soil. Provide regular, consistent water while the tree is establishing and during fruit development to ensure juicy yields.
Skill level: Beginner
Growth rate: Moderate
Suitable for container gardens: Yes
Mature Height: 3-4m
Mature Width: 2-3m
Seasonality: Evergreen
Drought Tolerant: Highly drought-tolerant once established,
Frost Tolerant: Frost-hardy once mature.
Wind Tolerant: Highly wind-tolerant
Leaf colour: Glossy, dark olive-green, while the underside is covered in a dense, felt-like silvery-white fuzz.
Leaf Variegation pattern: No
Size of leaf: 3-8cmin length and 2-4cm in width.
Flower: Highly distinctive, resembling a burst of tropical fireworks against its silvery foliage. Each blossom features thick, cupped, and fleshy petals which are snow-white on the outside and blushed with a soft pinkish-purple on the inside; exploding from the centre of the petals is a dense, brush-like cluster of roughly 25 to 30 vivid, crimson-red stamens.
