A gigantic Havelock North-grown feijoa has smashed the previous recordholders off the winner's podium.
Heather Smith arrived at Hawke's Bay Today's Hastings newsroom yesterday with a bounty of the behemoth fruit - the heaviest weighing 385 grams - a new Hawke's Bay record.
That dwarfs the previous record of 316 grams.
Ms Smith, originally from the United States, farms beef and sheep in Matangi Rd, and also grows feijoas commercially, with 1900 feijoa trees in total.
Her crop will find its way into juices made by the likes of Simply Squeezed.