1. Key Resource 1995-01-01 Formerly a luxury food for the privileged few, the avocado has become an accepted part of the diet of many people in the developed countries of the West. Rapid urbanization and rising incomes in the developing world make the crop an increasingly valuable source of protein and minerals there also....
  2. 2019-03-20 This book is designed as a simple introduction to the more common food plants of the Philippines. It is hoped people will take greater pride and interest in these plants and become confident and informed about how to grow and use them. Many of the local food plants that occur in every country are...
  3. 1962-01-01 What grows in Florida - how to grow it and where to get it.
  4. Avocado,Persea americana, is an evergreen tree in the family Lauraceae which grown for its nutritious fruit, the avocado. The avocado tree is large and dome shaped with oval or elliptical leaves arranged in a spiral on the tips of branches. The leaves have a red pigmentation when they first...
  5. Avocado,Persea americana, is an evergreen tree in the family Lauraceae which grown for its nutritious fruit, the avocado. The avocado tree is large and dome shaped with oval or elliptical leaves arranged in a spiral on the tips of branches. The leaves have a red pigmentation when they first...
  6. Edible Portion: Fruit, Vegetable A small to medium sized tree. It grows 8-10 m high. Trees can grow to 25 m high. The leaf stalk is 1.5-5 cm long. Leaves areentire, oval and 5-40 cm long. Flowers are greenish, small and on the ends of branches. Clusters of flowers may contain 200-300 flowers....
  7. 2005-01-01 El Manual de producción del aguacate pretende reunir, en un solo libro, conocimientos agronómicos básicos e información actual, tanto bibliográfica como práctica, adaptada a las condiciones reales en que se desenvuelven los productores de aguacate de altura en Costa Rica. El propóito de este es...
  8. 2025-04-01 Avocados produce valuable fruit and have huge potential for mountain farmers in Haiti.We struggled for several years, trying to plant grafted avocado trees that we bought from nurseries. My technicians have learned the method and are teaching other farmers. They directly seed local avocadoes into...