Choquette
Variety of Avocado · Persea americana
Very large, glossy-green Florida avocado with mild, juicy and low-oil flesh.
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6🇺🇸 USA 1929
Taste & characteristics
Taste
mildjuicy
Profile
- Parentage
- West Indian x Guatemalan Hybride
- Breeder
- Alfred B. Choquette (Florida)
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
- Fruit weight
- 900 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Very large, oval fruit, 700-1100 g, smooth glossy green skin. Flesh mild, juicy, low in oil, more watery than California types.
Growth
Vigorous tree; frost-sensitive (to about -2 °C), tropical-subtropical.
Yield
Very productive; fruit can be prone to splitting.
Notes
A well-known green-skinned large cultivar of the Florida/Caribbean type.
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