| Type | Exotic |
|---|---|
| Family | Lauraceae |
| Common Name | Avacado |
| Origin | Tropical America |
| Botanical Features | Evergreen trees, bark surface pale brown, mottled with dark blotches, scurfy and thinly scaly, rough, exfoliations small, brittle; blaze pinkish; branchlets glabrous. Leaves simple, alternate, clustered at the tip of branchlets, estipulate; petiole 15-40 mm long, stout, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 6.5-20 x 3.7-10 cm, oblong, elliptic-oblong or ovate-oblong, base oblique or acute, apex obtuse or obtusely acute, margin entire, glabrous, glaucous beneath, coriaceous; lateral nerves 6-12 pairs, pinnate, prominent, flowers pale yellow, in panicles from upper axils and terminal; fruit a berry 15-18 mm across, globose, green with white specks, aromatic, epicarp red when ripe; seed one, globose. |
| Habit |   |
| Leaf |   |