Avocado
Persea americana
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At a glance
- Scientific name
- Persea americana
- Group
- Magnoliids
- Order
- Laurales
- Family
- Lauraceae
- Continent
- North America
- Habitat
- Forest
- Form
- Tree
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Flower colour
- Yellow, Green
- Blooms in
- Spring
- Use
- Food, Oil
- Conservation status
- Least concern
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Easy
Did you know?
- Its name comes from ahuacatl, a word of the Nahuatl language of the Aztecs.
- An avocado does not soften while it hangs on the tree; it ripens only after it is picked.
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- Black pepper
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q37153 · All plants · All entries