Hass
Variety of Avocado · Persea americana
The creamy world-standard avocado with nutty flavour and thick, storable pebbly skin.
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Taste & characteristics
Taste
mildnuttyaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Guatemalan-Typ mit Mexican-Einschlag, Sämling
- Breeder
- Rudolph Hass
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
- Fruit weight
- 200 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Pear-shaped fruit, 150-250 g, with a thick pebbly skin that turns from green to blackish-purple when ripe. Flesh creamy, high oil content (up to 23%), nutty.
Growth
Moderately vigorous, upright tree. Frost-sensitive (to about -1 °C).
Yield
Very productive, tends to alternate bearing. Holds and stores well on the tree over a long window.
Notes
With about 80% of world commercial production, by far the most important cultivar.
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