What is Avocado?
{{Speciesbox | fossil_range = {{Fossil range|15|0}}Middle [[Miocene]] – recent | image = Persea americana fruit 2.JPG | image_alt = Close-up picture of foliage and avocado fruit | image_caption = Avocado fruit and foliage, [[Réunion|Réunion island]] | image2 = Avocado Hass - single and halved.jpg | genus = Persea | species = americana | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref>Wegier, A., Lorea Hernández, F., Contreras, A., Tobón, W. & Mastretta-Yanes, A. 2017. Persea americana (errata version published in 2018). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T96986556A129765464. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T96986556A96986588.en. Downloaded on 01 May 2021.</ref> | authority = [[Philip Miller|Mill.]] | synonyms = *''Laurus persea'' L. * ''Persea americana var. angustifolia'' Miranda * ''Persea americana var. drymifolia'' (Cham. & Schltdl.) S.F.Blake * ''Persea americana var. nubigena '' (L.O.Williams) L.E.Kopp * ''Persea drymifolia '' Cham. & Schltdl. * ''Persea edulis '' Raf. * ''Persea floccosa '' Mez * ''Persea gigantea'' L.O.Williams * ''Persea gratissima '' C.F.Gaertn. * ''Persea gratissima var. drimyfolia '' (Schltdl. & Cham.) Mez * ''Persea gratissima var. macrophylla'' [[Carl Meissner|Meisn.]] * ''Persea gratissima var. oblonga'' Meisn. * ''Persea gratissima var. praecox'' Nees * ''Persea gratissima var. vulgaris'' Meisn. * ''Persea leiogyna '' Blake * ''Persea nubigena'' L.O.Williams * ''Persea nubigena var. guatemalensis'' L.O.Williams * ''Persea paucitriplinervia'' Lundell * ''Persea persea'' (L.) Cockerell * ''Persea steyermarkii'' C.K.Allen | synonyms_ref = <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000465160|title=''Persea americana'' Mill.|website=World Flora Online|date=2022|publisher=The World Flora Online Consortium|access-date=25 May 2022}}</ref> }} The term '''avocado''' refers to a type of [[berry]]. It has medium dark green or dark green bumpy o