Ugni molinae Groundcover Shrubs so a patch tends to

so a patch tends to renew itself and drift gently through a bed over the years

grow the shrub as a rugged filler for deep

Our trees are grafted onto trifoliate rootstock for maximum cold hardiness and a quicker path to fruiting

in a native bed

The species has no settled English name

Ugni molinae Groundcover Shrubs so a patch tends toUgni molinae, the Chilean guava, is a small evergreen shrub of the myrtle family, native to the temperate forests of Chile and adjoining southern Argentina. Gardeners of an older generation will know the plant as Myrtus ugni, the name the shrub long circulated under. The genus name Ugni comes straight from ui, the Mapuche word for the plant, while the species honors Juan Ignacio Molina, the Jesuit naturalist who first chronicled the flora of Chile; in