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Persea americana - Avocado
Avocado fruit is not only healthy and delicious, the plants are also attractive with their red leaf shoots (Persea americana). We offer you a wide range of self-fertile, robust and high-yielding varieties.
If you like to harvest your own Avocado fruit you will get best results with a grafted plant: the small trees with their large, glossy, bluish green leaves are amazingly modest for a tropical plant. Grafted plants already start producing fruits 2 to 3 years after grafting. The fragrant flowers are small, yellowish-green and form a big panicle. They are self-fertile but sometimes there are differences in ripeness of pollen and pistil, so it may be of advantage to have a second plant. If the flowers are pollinated by insects, it takes 8 to 12 months in our climate until the fruits ripen. These should be harvested as long as they are firm and then be left for after-ripening in the house. This way, the fruits develop a better aroma whereas left on the tree, the ripeness stops naturally. We usually know pear-shaped avocados from the shelves in a shop but the fruits can as well be round or oblong oval. Whatever shape, all fruits have the same green, creamy-soft fruit pulp that is rich in oil (up to 30% of oil) as well as nutritious and very tasty. The dark-green peel is deeply textured to wrinkled.
Quality: worldwide known agricultural crop; fruits rich in oil and with a nutty taste; robust, tropical fruit plant
Use: all-year in a heated winter garden or bright room; in pots from April to October outside in a protected spot on balcony, terrace and in the garden
Data sheet
- Family
- Lauraceae
- Origin
- South Amercia
- Flowering period
- Spring
- Color of flowers
- Yellow
- Fruits
- Edible fruits
- Fragrance
- Fragrant flowers
- Growth
- Tree or shrub
- Location
- Sunny
- winter temperature
- 15 (+/- 5) °C
- Minimum temperature
- 3 °C
- Hardiness Zones
- 9
- Height
- 2,5 - 3 m
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