This variety has a vivid salmon pink flesh, and derives from the original guavas, brought to the Cape via Madeira, by the early Dutch settlers in the seventeenth century.
Lenanhlobo inenyama lenguphinki longabonakali kahle, leliphuma kumagwava endalo, leletfwe eCape ngase Madeira, ngesikhatsi sekucala sekufika kwemaDutch ngeminyaka yandvulo yelishumi nesikhombisa.