Avocado and the environment – the invisible cost of cultivation The global increase in avocado demand has led to significant ...

Changes in an avocado’s appearance, smell, taste, or texture may indicate that it has gone bad. An avocado doesn’t start to ripen until picked from the tree, but the process happens rather ...

An odd quirk of the avocado, Persea americana to botanists, is the clockwork performed by its blossoms. They undergo a complicated sequence of opening, closing and reopening that keeps each flower ...