Avocado (Persea americana)

#Dlium Alpukat or avocado (Persea americana) is a plant species in Lauraceae, a small tree with a height of 3-10 m, taproot, woody stem, round, brown, many branched and fine-haired twigs. Leaf buds are reddish and have tight hair, while old leaves are green and bare. P. americana has a single leaf crammed at the end of a branch with a stem length of 1.5-5 cm, shaped long to round egg length, thick as a leather, pointed tip and base, the flat edge sometimes slightly curled upward, bone pinnate, 10-20 cm long and 3-10 cm wide. Large avocado trees produce millions of flowers in a season. Compound flowers, androgynous, hermaphrodite flowers but dichogamy, arranged in panicles that come out near the tips of the branches, greenish yellow. A single female flower with a long stamen and ends with an enlarged anthers. The fruit is spherical or ovoid, has a length of 5-20 cm, is green or yellowish green or has purple spots, weighs 200-400 grams, but can sometimes be 600-700 grams depending on the variety. A tree produces around 200 fruits/tree. Ripe fruit contains soft mesocarp, yellowish green and fatty with a thin layer of skin bordering the seed coat. Signs of maturity when the fruit is shaken will sound because the seeds are released from the mesocarp and the cavity is widened. Kingdom: Plantae Phylum: Angiosperms Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Laurales Family: Lauraceae Genus: Persea Species: P. americana Learn more: https://www.dlium.com/2020/01/avocado-persea-americana.html Location: Samigaluh, Kulon Progo Regency, Yogyakarta Province, Indonesia. Aryo Bandoro Dlium Web: https://www.dlium.com Twit: https://twitter.com/TheDlium FB: https://www.facebook.com/Dlium Pin: https://www.pinterest.com/TheDlium