Avocado

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Theavocado(Perseaamericana)isatreethatisnativetoSouthCentral
Mexico,[2]classifiedasamemberofthefloweringplantfamily Avocado
Lauraceae.[3]Avocado(alsoalligatorpear)alsoreferstothetree's Temporalrange:150Ma
fruit,whichisbotanicallyalargeberrycontainingasingleseed.[4] Pre OS D C P T J K Pg N
MiddleMioceneRecent
Avocadosarecommerciallyvaluableandarecultivatedintropicaland
Mediterraneanclimatesthroughouttheworld.[3]Theyhaveagreen
skinned,fleshybodythatmaybepearshaped,eggshaped,orspherical.
Commercially,theyripenafterharvesting.Avocadotreesarepartially
selfpollinatingandareoftenpropagatedthroughgraftingtomaintaina
predictablequalityandquantityofthefruit.

Contents
1 History
2 Etymology
2.1 Regionalnames
3 Cultivation
3.1 Harvestandpostharvest
3.2 Breeding Avocadofruitandfoliage,Runion
3.3 Propagationandrootstocks island
3.4 Growingindoors
3.5 Diseases
3.6 CultivationinMexico
3.7 CultivationinCalifornia
3.8 CultivationinPeru
3.9 Acultivars
3.10 Bcultivars
Scientificclassification
3.11 Othercultivars
4 Productionandconsumption Kingdom: Plantae
5 Avocadorelatedinternationaltradeissues
6 Culinaryuses (unranked): Angiosperms
7 Nutritionalvalue (unranked): Magnoliids
7.1 Nutrientsandfatcomposition
7.2 Dietandpreliminaryresearch Order: Laurales
8 Asahouseplant
Family: Lauraceae
9 Allergies
10 Toxicitytoanimals Genus: Persea
11 Coevolution
12 Seealso Species: P.americana
13 References Binomialname
14 Furtherreading
15 Externallinks Perseaamericana
Mill.

Synonyms
History
LaurusperseaL.