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Avocado
Persea americana
21.4585, -157.833
Field Notes
Description:
An avocado is a tree, bearing a fruit that shares the same name. This tree can grow up to anywhere between 20 and 40 feet, however, if it is maintained through pruning, it can be conserved at a smaller size. The avocado fruit starts off as a small flower, remaining a light greenish - white, and growing in bunches throughout the tree. Over a few weeks it grows into a green fruit, and as time goes on it turns purple, signaling it’s full ripeness.
Habitat:
The avocado is native to Mexico and Central America, and this specific one was found in Kahalu’u, on ‘O’ahu.
Notes:
Other than making a tasty treat, people also commonly use avocados for a skin moisturizer. With ingredients including iron, potassium, calcium, sodium, copper, magnesium, etc., the avocado is able to moisten the driest of skins.
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