Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Print Fact Sheet

Persea americana

Common name

Avocado

Family

Lauraceae

Where found

Occasionally naturalised. Sydney area and north.

Notes

Introduced tree or shrub to 15 m high. Fruit fleshy. Young growth covered with appressed, whitish hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 10–30 cm long, 40–100 mm wide, leathery, upper surface dark green, hairless or with sparse hairs, lower surface glaucous and sparsely hairy, secondary veins prominent. Flowers yellowish green, 6–7 mm long, with 6 'petals' about 4-6 mm long. Flowers in many-flowered clusters. Fruit yellow-green to dark green, purple, or black, pear-shaped or round, mostly 8–15 cm long, sometimes fruit 5–7 cm long at the end of the season or on some naturalized plants.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Persea~americana  (accessed 4 April 2021)