Avocado Shoot

The avocado is a tree, long thought to have originated in South Central Mexico, classified as a member of the flowering plant family Lauraceae. Commonly, the fruit of the plant is also called an ''avocado'' , which is botanically a large berry containing a single large seed known as a "pit" or a "stone".

Avocados are commercially valuable and are cultivated in tropical and Mediterranean climates throughout the world. They have a green-skinned, fleshy body that may be pear-shaped, egg-shaped,.. more