Fruit Talkabout(A-Z): Avocados history and description.

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Avocados Description
Avocado botanically called (Persea americana ) is a tree native to Mexico and Central America ,[1] classified in the flowering plant family Lauraceae along with cinnamon , camphor and bay laurel .
Avocado or alligator pear also refers to the fruit , botanically a large berry that contains a single seed.
Avocados are commercially valuable and are cultivated in tropical and Mediterranean climates throughout the world.
They have a green-skinned, fleshy body that may be pear- shaped, egg-shaped, or spherical.
Commercially, they ripen after harvesting.
Trees are partially self-pollinating and often are propagated through grafting to maintain a predictable quality and quantity of the fruit.
Native criollo avocados, the
ancestral form of today's domesticated varieties
Its History.
Persea americana, or the avocado, is believed to have originated in the state of Puebla, Mexico, though fossil evidence suggests similar species were much more widespread millions of years ago, occurring as far north as California at a time when the climate of that region was more hospitable to them.
The native, undomesticated variety is known as a criollo , and is small, with dark black skin, and contains a large seed.  It probably coevolved with extinct megafauna.
The oldest evidence of avocado use was found in a cave located in Coxcatlán, Puebla, Mexico, that dates to around 10,000 BC. The avocado tree also has a long history of cultivation in Central and South America; a water jar shaped like an avocado, dating to AD 900, was discovered in the pre- Incan city of Chan Chan.
The first written record in English of the use of the word 'avocado' was by Hans Sloane in a 1696 index of Jamaican plants.
The plant was introduced to Indonesia in 1750, Brazil in 1809, South Africa and Australia in the late 1800s, and the Levant in 1908.

Source: Wikipedia