Avocado, also known as "avocado" in Taiwan, is native to Mexico and Central America and was later widely grown in California, making California the largest avocado producer in the world.
The scientific name of avocado is Avocado (scientific name: Persea americana Mill.) is a plant of the genus Avocado in the family Lauraceae, an evergreen tree, and a shade-tolerant plant. About 10 meters high, the bark is gray-green and split longitudinally. The leaves are alternate, oblong, elliptical, oval or obovate, with a very pointed apex, a wedge-shaped, very pointed to nearly round base at the base, leathery, green above, and usually slightly pale below. The flowers are light green with yellow, 5-6 mm long, the pedicel is 6 mm long, densely covered with yellowish-brown pubescence. Both sides of the perianth are densely covered with yellowish-brown pubescence, and the perianth tube is inverted conical. The fruit is large, usually pear-shaped, sometimes oval or spherical, yellow-green or reddish-brown, with corky exocarp and fleshy mesocarp, which is edible. The flowering period is from February to March and the fruiting period is from August to September.