Persea americana (Cultivated)

Avocado leaves, fruits and seed – efloraofindia | Google Groups: 3 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (6)
sending some pictures of Avocado leaves, fruits and seeds.

…, beautiful leaves and fruits.  How many years it takes for the tree to fruit?

Yes I am also interested to know the age of the plant the fruiting takes place.

Request Tree ID 100 – Lalbagh, Bangalore – RA:

…avocado… most likely
the tree form not diagnostic since its been pruned a lot..
the fruit skin grain =- avocado…
but the leaf veins are a bit different from my leaves i showed yesterday…

This is much smaller fruit than avocado, I have seen.
Also the leaves are very different

avocado

could you please disperse our doubts ?
and tell us why our doubts are not to the mark

it seems there are 3 distinct races in avocado as per wiki page.
This one may be from west indies

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Unknown fruit from cultivated in Bangalore:
A fruit cultivated in some garden near bangalore. Request to identify.

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It is Avocado fruit, Persea americana.

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It is known as butter fruit

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It is interesting that this American and Mexican fruit is known as butter fruit only in some parts of India. In America it is popular as Avocado or alligator pear.

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Here is the fruit on plant in California.

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yes to … and … answers…
too bad the maker of the pic cut the seed off…
but if you have some more try this: …
carefully removed from a ripe avocado can be put in a water jug halfway submerged and it will root and give you a tranplantable start for a tree. and in tropical countries give you fruits in about five years…

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Avocados are commercially valuable and are cultivated in tropical and Mediterranean climates throughout the world.

They have a green-skinned, pear-shaped fleshy body that ripens after harvesting. Trees are partially self-pollinating and often are propagated through grafting to maintain a predictable quality and quantity of the fruit.

Ref. Wikipedia

Attachments: Butter Fruit Tree – 0004.jpg, Butter Fruit Tree – 0012.jpg, Butter Fruit Tree – Bark.jpg, Butter Fruit Tree – Canopy.jpg, Butter Fruit Tree – Flower.jpg, Butter Fruit Tree – Fruit.jpg, Butter Fruit Tree – Leaf.jpg, Butter Fruit Tree – Tender Fruit.jpg

Thanks for showing this plant with full details.
Persea americana
Family : Lauraceae

Salicaceae (including Flacourtiaceae) Fortnight: Casearia graveolens Pune SMP4: 6 posts by 4 authors. 2 image.
Casearia graveolens Planted in a bungalow. Don’t know when ?

The photo of leaves.

Disease on Avocado Tree – 050614 – RK : 3 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (4).
Bangalore – 02/06/2014 This tree is over 60 yrs old. It has been losing it’s branches over the years. The last pic shows the infestation. Not sure whether this is fungus. An inky black fluid is oozing out. Am interested in knowing which disease has affected it.

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There are 3 possibilities for the drying and resin oozing

1. The main branches got cut, some caterpillar infection may be the there inside the tree

2. The root of the tree got damaged considerably due to construction activity.
3. Some root interaction might have  happen with near by jack tree. I saw such liquid oozing in jack trees.

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Piperaceae, Lauraceae and Thymelaeaceae Fortnight :: Lauraceae :: Persea americana :: Binsar, Uttarakhand :: ARKSEP-03 : 8 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (2).

Attached are pictures of Persea americana captured at Binsar, Uttarakhand in November 2012.
Requested to please validate the ID.

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Yes, it looks like that but I am not sure.

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though not all avocado varieties have the usual dark green skin with some sort of granularity on the surface,but this rusty streaked and not so green skin makes me wonder too, though cant absolutely deny your diagnosis.
secondly if you could have moved the camera just a tad bit and taken some other section you would have ended up with a “more” sampling of the fruits, as is its the same fruit in both pics.
I also wish the back side of the leaves could be seen in clearer light.
It would also help if this were a demonstration garden or an orchard where the grower could have helped you out.
so finally my question: do you by any chance have more pictures or more info?

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I tried to find some other pics of the tree, but unfortunately, no more views….
Hopefully, experts suggest the correct ID…

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I found a lot of images for Avocado varieties… it shows some red streaked ones and gives variety names…
there is a comprehensive poster
http://lifeisgoodglutenfree.avocado-poster.jpg

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To me it is Persea americana

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Piperaceae, Lauraceae and Thymelaeaceae Fortnight: Lauraceae-Persea americana from California -GSSEP13 : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (4).
Persea americana Mill., Avocado, the popular fruit here in California, fruit paste commonly used in dips. Photographed from Sunnyvale, California.

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yes HAAS variety
very nice to eat, not astringent to tongue, somewhat sweetish, no tinge of slightest tartness like some,
and makes great guacamole.
mouth watering, I want one right now. but alas… eat one for me..

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Yes already had a lot this Sunday along with tortillas chips.

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Fwd: [efloraofindia:226852] Id please GK1 : 4 posts by 1 author.

The floral structure and leaf indicates it is a species of Persea; probably Persea indica

Thank you all. Saving this image for reference.

A Meliaceae tree?

It is butter fruit (Avacado) Persea americana found in the hill stations

Persea?
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Yes, this appears to be a species of Persea but it is difficult to name the species with these images as there are at least 8 species of the genus occurring in Bhutan and without knowing the character of the fruits it seems an impossible task. Moreover, the genus Persea is very closely related to Phoebe and the latter can be distinguished from the former only by the clasping versus spreading tepals in the fruiting stage!  A revision of the Indian Lauraceae is very desirable.

Persea americana Mill. : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (5)- other images of 600 kb or more.

Yes, perhaps little different. And this (same area) ?
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try avocado. leaves match avocado. its green skin variety

Yes, perhaps variety of Persea americana…

Infection on Avocado tree?:
THis is an Avocado tree in my house in Bangalore.
Does anyone know what those white rounds things on the tree trunk are? And how does one treat this?

These are lichens: composite, symbiotic organisms formed by the association of algae or cyanobacteria and a filamentous fungus.They make interesting pollution indicators, as they won’t grow in polluted air. If lichens start to grow on your trees, that’s good news: a sign that the air is fairly pure! You’ll also see lichens on rocks and sometimes on the bare ground. And while ghostly gray and muddy green are their main colors, they can come in all sorts of shades, even bright oranges, yellows, yes, even pink!
In no way are tree lichens harmful to the bark on which they grow. They are strictly epiphytes, that is, organisms attached to the outside of the bark. They are not parasites (which, by definition, harm their host) and seek nothing from the tree other than a support on which to grow.