Mexicola
Variety of Avocado · Persea americana
Extremely cold-hardy small Mexican avocado with thin, edible skin and intense flavour.
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Taste & characteristics
Taste
nuttyaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- reiner Mexican-Typ
- Breeder
- Selektion, Kalifornien
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
- Fruit weight
- 120 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Small, pear-shaped fruit, 80-170 g, very thin, smooth, dark-purple to black edible skin. Flesh rich, nutty; large seed.
Growth
Vigorous tree; one of the hardiest cultivars (to about -7 °C).
Yield
Very productive; early autumn ripening.
Notes
Popular for cooler climates and as a cold-tolerant rootstock.
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