Acca sellowiana
The Pampas · Sweetness · Inner Ripening
On the wide, wind-shaped plains of Brazil’s Pampas biome, where the grasses sway like waves and the seasons arrive in silence, grows a tree of subtle grace: Acca sellowiana, known as feijoa or goiaba-serrana. With silver-green leaves and red-centered flowers, it stands quietly among the hills — a keeper of sweetness that grows slowly, inwardly, in its own time.
Botanical Essence
Acca sellowiana is a small tree native to the southern grasslands of Brazil. It bears soft, fragrant fruit rich in vitamin C and ornamental crimson flowers pollinated by birds and bees. Its leaves — green above, silvery below — shimmer in the wind, reflecting the light of open skies.
Resilient to frost and long summers, it thrives in the temperate climate of the Pampas, offering beauty, nourishment, and a grounded presence amid open space.
Ancestral Wisdom
Among Indigenous and rural communities, Acca sellowiana is known not only for its fruit, but for its feeling. It is a tree associated with quiet healing, with the sweetness that grows in stillness — not rushed, not loud. It reminds us that the heart, like the fruit, ripens best when given time and trust.
Its flowers feed the pollinators; its fruits nourish the family and wild birds. But its deeper gift is the lesson that tenderness is strength, and that softness survives where force fails.
“I ripe in silence — sweetness grows where the heart remains open.”
Acca sellowiana invites us to welcome sweetness and gentleness into our lives. Though the world we inhabit often mistakes these qualities for weakness, this plant whispers of the quiet power held within tenderness.
As part of the Seis Collection, this enchanting flower embodies the strength of the divine feminine — a force born from sacred beauty.