Sharwil
Variety of Avocado · Persea americana
Australian-Hawaiian gourmet cultivar with especially high oil content and intensely nutty flavour.
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Taste & characteristics
Taste
mildnuttyaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Guatemalan x Mexican Hybride
- Breeder
- Selektion in Australien
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
- Fruit weight
- 250 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Oval to pear-shaped, 200-300 g, rough green skin staying green. Flesh very rich, high oil content, distinctly nutty; small seed.
Growth
Medium tree; frost-sensitive (to about -2 °C).
Yield
Good, but tends to alternate bearing.
Notes
An important cultivar in Hawaii and Australia, highly prized for quality.
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