Avocado, Alligator Pear
Persea americana · Lauraceae · 아보카도
Look
- Leaves
- Smooth elliptic leaves with smooth margins, 10-20 cm long.
- Flowers
- Small, inconspicuous yellow-green flowers open in panicles in January-March, with six tepals.
- Fruit
- An oval to pear-shaped fruit (7.5-15 cm long) holding one smooth, light brown, round seed.
Where it grows
- Native to
- Native from Mexico to Costa Rica.