Kingdom: PlantaeDivisio: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Ordo: Laurales
Family: Lauraceae
Genus: Persea
Spesies: Persea americana
Class: Magnoliopsida
Ordo: Laurales
Family: Lauraceae
Genus: Persea
Spesies: Persea americana
Description
The avocado is a fast-growing subtropical tree that can reach 80ft in ideal conditions. Trees are usually quite dense in foliage and often have a spreading growth form. Depending on the climate, avocado's may produce numerous flushes of new growth each year. The crushed leaves of Mexican varieties have an anise-like smell. Flowering occurs during winter, prior to vegetative growth flush. The flowers are formed in large clusters of up to 300 each. From each cluster only 2-3 fruits will develop.
Avocado seeds dating to 7000 BC have been found at a Mexican archaeological site, . Seed sizes are similar to wild varieties indicating that fruit were being harvested in the wild rather than from trees grown under selective cultivation. It is only in archaeological deposits dated to about 500 BC that the abundance and size of Avocado seeds increases, indicating cultivation of plants from seeds selected on the basis of fruit size. However, at another archaeological site in Mexico, small, wild-sized seeds have been found in deposits dating to as late as 700 AD, indicating that the practice of Avocado cultivation took time to spread to all communities.
The Avocado fruit is an important food in South America and is nutritious with high levels of mainly unsaturated oils, minerals, vitamins and reasonable levels of protein. The oil is evidently similar in composition to olive oil. The name 'Avocado' originates from the Aztec name ahuacacuauhitl meaning testicle tree! The Spanish shortened it to aguacate and the English then turned it into Avocado.The Avocado was evidently viewed by Indians and Spanish colonisers alike as having aphrodisiac properties which made it popular among many.
Function:
Various benefits could be received from avocado, both and his leaves. The researchers from Shizuoka University, Japan. For example, found the benefit avocado in reducing heart damage, including also damage resulting from the hepatitis virus. Along with several of his benefits:
The Avocado fruit is an important food in South America and is nutritious with high levels of mainly unsaturated oils, minerals, vitamins and reasonable levels of protein. The oil is evidently similar in composition to olive oil. The name 'Avocado' originates from the Aztec name ahuacacuauhitl meaning testicle tree! The Spanish shortened it to aguacate and the English then turned it into Avocado.The Avocado was evidently viewed by Indians and Spanish colonisers alike as having aphrodisiac properties which made it popular among many.
Function:
Various benefits could be received from avocado, both and his leaves. The researchers from Shizuoka University, Japan. For example, found the benefit avocado in reducing heart damage, including also damage resulting from the hepatitis virus. Along with several of his benefits:
- Overcame the kidney stone: drank extract water of seven sheets of the leaves avocado with ½ hot water glasses each morning and in the afternoon.
- To be sick the back: boiled 5 sheets of the leaves avocado and 500 cc warm water remained at 250 cc. stay for a night and drank the next day. Did a week was endless.
- For the thrush: stirred one avocado ripe with two sweet spoons and ate three times a day.
- Refined skin: Refine avocado and after that spread equitable for 30 minutes in the face and the hands that have been cleaned with warm water.
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