Can you describe how avocados grow?
Can you describe how avocados grow?
user
Well, an avocado tree is a large bushy tree, with leaves all the way up to the top, and maybe a thick stem at the bottom.  It likes warm climates.  The trunk is fairly thin, with a big bump in the middle and many roots.  The upper part of the trunk is the branches and the leaves.  The fruit is actually a sort of berry.  The skin is the “flesh” of the avocado, and it has a seed in the middle of the fruit.
assistant
You say it likes warm climates. Is this why they're usually grown in places like Arizona, California and Mexico?
user
Yes.  There's really not much difference in growing temperature between California and Arizona, as far as growing avocados is concerned.
assistant
And does the avocado emerge from a bloom?
user
Well...  I wouldn't quite use that term, because an avocado tree is not actually a bloom of any kind.  It's simply a large tree.  In fact, it's a large tree that grows many fruits, all at once.  In that respect, the avocado tree is like a flowering plant, but only in this respect.  There are a few species of flowering plants that grow multiple flowers at a time.  The difference is that these other flowering plants can spread their seeds in a way that disperses the seeds in a more timely manner, and without taking so many steps.
assistant
Avocado trees do not grow other fruits on it. It's just avocado.
user
That's correct.  Avocados are really a different kind of fruit.  In other fruits, the flower is what develops first, and the fruit is inside of the flower.  But in avocados, there is no flower.  The fruit develops first, and then the seed grows inside of it.  It's actually kind of like an apple, except the seed grows inside the skin rather than the center.
assistant
Well, it does grow from a bloom! A bloom is a flower.
user