Feijoa
STATION 1YA’s gardening expert has promised that one Tuesday evening in March ‘he will talk on hedge plants of greater variety, use, and beauty. Auckland will be much in his debt if he can convince householders that sombre ramparts of tecoma are not essential: to comfort and respectability. The other night a listener’s question caused a preliminary discussion of the feijoa, which will -be high on his list of recommendations. This plant is a neat edition of its cousin the pohutukawa; (continued on next page)
"(continued from previous page) it makes a fine shrub or hedge, is not fussy about soil or aspect, attracts no pests or blights, bears delicious fruit in early winter, has a beautiful flower and a pleasant looking leaf. "What more could you ask of any plant?" demanded the speaker. It would be nice, we thought, if the leaves were a substitute for lettuce or spinach, but even the feijoa’s warmest admirers don’t claim this for it. The flowers, though, we were surprised to hear, are highly esteemed as food by the Chinese. We went straight out to the feijoa grove-there was only one flower left, the others having faded and set their fruit, We gently stripped off the thick pink petals and the long crimson stamens and ate them with quiet confidence.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 297, 2 March 1945, Page 8
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