Trees & Plants

Avocado pear

Huiy jahaamuguri

Persea americana Mill.

Cultivated in homesteads Widely cultivated for its nutritious fruit. The fruit pulp is used to treat wounds with pus. Decoction from seeds is used as mouthwash and to relieve toothache and decoction from pulp, bark and leaves is used to promote menstruation. in rst

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uses: Widely cultivated for its nutritious fruit. The fruit pulp is used to treat wounds with pus. Decoction from seeds is used as mouthwash and to relieve toothache and decoction from pulp, bark and leaves is used to promote menstruation. in rst
family: Lauraceae
synonym: Persea gratissima C. F. Gaertn., Laurus persea L
description: Trees, to 15 m high. Leaf buds perulate with imbricate scales. Leaves × simple, alternate, 8-18 4-6 cm, elliptic, elliptic-ovate or elliptic-oblong, base attenuate, apex obtuse; lateral nerves 5-8 pairs, pinnate; estipulate; petiole to 2 cm. to Flowers bisexual, subsessile, greenish, in compact terminal panicles on branchlets. Perianth tomentose, tube turbinate, lobes 3+3. Stamens 9, perfect, those of the first and second row opposite the perianth lobes, introrse, those of third row opposite the first row; staminodes of fourth row opposite the second row, cordate, stipitate. Ovary superior, sessile, hairy; style slender; × stigma simple. Fruit a berry, 10 8 cm, with copious mesocarp; seed 4 cm dia. EUQEEFAR .M/OAF
native range: Mexico and Central America
distribution: Cultivated in tropical and subtropical climates around the world
english names: Avocado pear · Aguacate · Soldier’s butter
flowering fruiting: March- September
occurrence maldives: Cultivated in homesteads