Native to South America, the humble feijoa has made its way from Brazil and Argentina to the French Riviera, California, Australia and New Zealand, where they're almost "a national identity fruit".

Your ultimate guide to indulging in one of our favourite autumn fruits, the feijoa. The season is short and when it's here, it's a feijoa frenzy of baking, preserving, freezing and cooking.

Originally from the South American countries of Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Argentina, the feijoa (named after Portuguese botanist João da Silva Feijó) was introduced to New Zealand in the 1920s.