Fuerte
Variety of Avocado · Persea americana
The classic green-skinned winter benchmark with thin skin and mild, buttery flesh.
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6🇲🇽 Mexico 1911
Taste & characteristics
Taste
mildnuttyaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Mexican x Guatemalan Hybride
- Breeder
- Selektion aus Atlixco, Mexiko
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
- Fruit weight
- 250 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Pear-shaped fruit, 200-300 g, with thin, smooth green skin that stays green when ripe. Flesh mild, buttery, creamy.
Growth
Vigorous, spreading tree. Somewhat more cold-tolerant than Hass (to about -3 °C).
Yield
Irregular, markedly alternate bearing; a good winter supplier.
Notes
Long the world's leading cultivar before Hass; an important B-type pollenizer.
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