Gwen
Variety of Avocado · Persea americana
Hass-like but green-skinned cultivar on a compact tree with excellent, rich flavour.
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6🇺🇸 USA 1982
Taste & characteristics
Taste
mildnuttyaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Sämling von Thille (Hass-verwandt), Guatemalan-Typ
- Breeder
- University of California (Riverside)
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
- Fruit weight
- 250 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Oval to egg-shaped, 170-410 g, dull-green slightly rough skin staying green. Flesh rich, nutty, Hass-like, high oil content.
Growth
Compact, small tree – good for small gardens and high-density planting.
Yield
Very high yield per tree footprint.
Notes
From the UC Riverside breeding program, forerunner of Lamb Hass.
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