The feijoa (Acca sellowiana), also called pineapple guava or guavasteen, is the intensely perfumed fruit of an evergreen shrub in the myrtle family — a small, egg-shaped, dull-green berry whose grainy, jelly-like cream-coloured flesh smells at once of pineapple, guava, ripe apple and a cool whisper of mint. It is usually eaten by slicing it in half and scooping the fragrant pulp out with a teaspoon, and even its fleshy flower petals are edible.