Difference between revisions of "Avocado"

From Eat Every Plant
Jump to navigation Jump to search
(create page)
 
(leaves are edible)
 
Line 41: Line 41:
 
==Edible products==
 
==Edible products==
 
* Fruit flesh
 
* Fruit flesh
 +
* Leaves - "light hazelnut-anise or licorice flavor"
  
 
==References==
 
==References==
Line 47: Line 48:
 
{{Ack-Wikipedia}}
 
{{Ack-Wikipedia}}
  
 +
[[Category:Lauraceae]]
 +
[[Category:Oily fruits]]
 
[[Category:Plants Keenan has eaten]]
 
[[Category:Plants Keenan has eaten]]
[[Category:Oily fruits]]
+
[[Category:Plants with other parts for Keenan to eat]]
[[Category:Lauraceae]]
 

Latest revision as of 13:41, 12 November 2017

Avocado
Temporal range: 15–0 Ma
Middle Miocene – Recent
Close-up picture of foliage and avocado fruit
Avocado fruit and foliage, Réunion island
Avocado with cross section edit.jpg
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
(unranked):
(unranked):
Order:
Family:
Genus:
Species:
P. americana
Binomial name
Persea americana
Synonyms
  • Laurus persea L.
  • Persea americana var. angustifolia Miranda
  • Persea americana var. drymifolia (Cham. & Schltdl.) S.F.Blake
  • Persea americana var. nubigena (L.O.Williams) L.E.Kopp
  • Persea drymifolia Cham. & Schltdl.
  • Persea edulis Raf.
  • Persea floccosa Mez
  • Persea gigantea L.O.Williams
  • Persea gratissima C.F.Gaertn.
  • Persea gratissima var. drimyfolia (Schltdl. & Cham.) Mez
  • Persea gratissima var. macrophylla Meisn.
  • Persea gratissima var. oblonga Meisn.
  • Persea gratissima var. praecox Nees
  • Persea gratissima var. vulgaris Meisn.
  • Persea leiogyna Blake
  • Persea nubigena L.O.Williams
  • Persea nubigena var. guatemalensis L.O.Williams
  • Persea paucitriplinervia Lundell
  • Persea persea (L.) Cockerell
  • Persea steyermarkii C.K.Allen [1]

The avocado is a green-skinned fruit with edible, fatty flesh surrounding a single pit.

Edible products

  • Fruit flesh
  • Leaves - "light hazelnut-anise or licorice flavor"

References

  1. "Persea americana Mill., The Plant List, Version 1". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden. 2010.

Acknowledgements

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Avocado, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.