Herb. No. 217 · Lauraceae
Mesoamerican origin; a subtropical orchard from Mexico to California to Kenya.
Native · Mexico & Central America
Native Also grown
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Avocado
Persea americana
A Mesoamerican berry with a giant seed — fat as food, not a toast personality, and not a pit tea.
Avocado is a laurel-family fruit of Mesoamerica. Traditional use is as a fatty flesh with salt, maize, and chile. Culinary ripe flesh is the path. The pit and leaves are not a tea. Hass is a California seedling that took over the grocery. They ripen off the tree; a hard fruit on the counter is a plan, not a defect.
Flavor
Butter, green nut, a little sweetness when really ripe. Underripe is water and regret.
Parts used
Ripe flesh
Helpful
- A true food fat
- Ripens after you buy it
Cautions
- Pets and birds
- A hard freeze takes a tree
- Pit tea is a fad