Avocado
August 27th 2008 12:35
The avocado, also known as aguacate (Spanish), butter pear or alligator pear, is a tree and a very delicious fruit native from Mexico and Central America, classified in the flowering plant family Lauraceae.
Avocados are a commercially valuable crop whose trees and fruit are cultivated in tropical climates throughout the world, producing a green-skinned, pear-shaped fruit that ripens after harvesting.
Avocado fruits have a smooth, creamy, greenish-yellow flesh with an unusually high amount of fat that is primarily monounsaturated. They also contain a high concentration of dietary fiber, vitamins and potassium. The pit, seed, leaves, bark and in some cases fruit can be toxic to some animals, particularly birds, and also humans; the toxicity of the fruit may be an adaptation that assisted seed dispersal by Pleistocene megafauna.
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