Reed
Variety of Avocado · Persea americana
Large, round summer avocado with thick green skin and especially rich, creamy flesh.
9
8
6🇺🇸 USA 1948
Taste & characteristics
Taste
mildnuttyaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Guatemalan-Typ, Sämling
- Breeder
- James S. Reed
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
- Fruit weight
- 400 g
Flowering & harvest
| J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flowering | ||||||||||||
| Fruit harvest | ||||||||||||
| Storage |
Description
Fruit
Nearly round fruit, 300-500 g, thick green slightly rough skin that stays green. Flesh thick, creamy, nutty, high oil content.
Growth
Upright, compact, narrow tree – good for high-density planting.
Yield
Very productive and consistent; a classic summer cultivar.
Notes
Popular in home gardens for its large fruit and long summer season.
Site, soil, hardiness and growth follow the species Avocado unless the variety states otherwise. Will it grow where you live? → Check your site on the species page
Plan this plant into your own garden
Plan this variety into your own garden, compare varieties and find pollinators – with the variety finder in the app.
← Back to Avocado