Photo: Persea americana 0.
Branch in fruit. Guacamole, yum! Rio de Janeiro bot.g., Brazil. Planted. 2001-02-13.
Persea americana P. Mill.
Engl.: avocado, alligator pear, avocado pear, midshipman's butter, vegetable marrow, West Indian avocado.
Deu.: Avocado.
Fran.: avocatier.
Sven.: avokado.
Suom.: avokado.
Span.: aguacate, aguacate olorosa, palto.
Jap.: abokado.
Bot. syn.: Laurus persea L., Persea drymifolia Schltdl. & Cham., Persea gratissima Gaertner f., Persea persea (L.) Cockerell.
Branch in fruit. Guacamole, yum! Rio de Janeiro bot.g., Brazil. Planted. 2001-02-13.
Classic texts: Sturtevant 1919.
Largish tree in fruit. Rio de Janeiro bot.g., Brazil. Planted. 2001-02-13.
Classic texts: Sayre 1917.
Classic texts: King's 1898.
Classic texts: Journals: AJP 1885.
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