Pinkerton
Variety of Avocado · Persea americana
Elongated pear-shaped cultivar with small seed and lots of creamy flesh – high yielding in the kitchen.
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6🇺🇸 USA 1972
Taste & characteristics
Taste
mildnuttyaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- vermutlich Rincon x Hass (überwiegend Guatemalan)
- Breeder
- John Pinkerton
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
- Fruit weight
- 300 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Long pear-shaped, necked fruit, 200-450 g, medium-rough green skin (darkens slightly). Very small seed, creamy flesh, excellent flesh-to-seed ratio.
Growth
Spreading tree; cold-tolerant to about -2 °C.
Yield
Productive, early in the season; holds well on the tree.
Notes
Valued for its very small seed and long winter bearing window.
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