Avocado Skin Topography
Some avocado fruit, such as Mexicola, Topa Topa, and Rincon, have smooth skin. The odd one, such as Lula, has ‘almost’ smooth skin. Most other have skin with varying degrees of ‘roughness’. Botanically, the bumps on avocado skin are tubercles, as are the bumps on the skin of other fruit, such as lychee and gourds.…
Sclerified avocado seed cotyledon surface encrustations
These sclerified areas on these avocado seed are unusual. Seeds of the genus Persea don’t usually have sclereids associated with the seed. Two other genera in the Lauraceae family (Endiandra and Beilschmeidia) do have an inner sclerified layer, but it is continuous, not scattered (Little et al, 2009). These hard longitudinal encrustations on the surface…
Avocados ‘join the club’
The ‘traditional’ economic model for fruit production and sale has changed dramatically in recent decades, but the change has not registered in the public consciousness. Growers used to decide what variety of fruit tree to plant, according to their own ideas about the market trends, disease resistance, climatic adaption, and so on. Trees could be…
Seedling # 2
This fruit taste good (for the most part), but the tree is unproductive and the fruit has bitterness under the skin and intrusive fibers. The fruit illustrated above fell naturally from the tree on the 3rd of December 2019. It was ripe on the 8th. So roughly a week to ripen. This fruit is nearly…
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Avocado Gene Expression, Climate, and Society 