Acca sellowiana is an evergreen perennial shrub native to South America in the myrtle family (Myrtaceae), named for the German botanist Friedrich Sello. Growing 10 to 15 feet tall in zones 8 to 10, it is a genuinely multi-seasonal plant: the spring flowers are ornamental in their own right — white petals with a thick tuft of crimson stamens — and are edible, with a taste variously described as rose petal and pineapple. The autumn fruit follows, oval and grey-green, fragrant with a flavour somewhere between guava and peppermint. The leaves are silver-grey beneath, catching the light in any breeze.

It tolerates heat, some drought once established, and a range of soils, making it one of the more adaptable fruiting shrubs for warm-climate gardens. Songbirds seek out the fruit. It can be grown as a clipped hedge or left to develop into a multi-stemmed small tree. For gardeners in the South or Pacific Southwest looking for an ornamental edible that does not look like an afterthought, Pineapple Guava is an unusually elegant answer.