Avocado - Butter Fruit Tree
Persea americana
Summary
Scientific Classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Angiospermae
Class: Dicotyledonae
Order: Laurales
Family: Lauraceae
Genus: Persea
Species: P.americana
Scientific Name: Persea americana Mill.
Common Names:
English: Avocado, Butter fruit.
Description:
- Habit and Habitat: Large, spreading, evergreen tree. Grows in humid lowland forests on limestone formations. Cultivated.
- Distribution: Central America - Mexico. Extensively cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions.
- Morphology:
Leaf: Alternately arranged, 12-25cm long.
Inflorescence: Panicles.
Flower: inconspicuous, greenish-yellow, bisexual, self pollinated.
Fruit: A large berry.
Seeds: single large seed. - Propagation: By seeds and grafting.
- Importance:
The fruit contains reductase and transferase enzymes. The oil from the seeds contain steroids that are used for pharmaceuticals. The seed is ground and made into an ointment used to treat various skin afflictions. The reddish-brown dye obtained from the seed is used for marking clothes. - Location: Ananth Manohar Garden.
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