What interesting body part is the avocado named after?
Read on for the amusing answer. They are up to their eyeballs in avocados at the markets right now! What is usually a fairly long season from May to September, the weather this year must have played a role in the massive volume and timing of avocados from mid to late June. Avocados (Persea Americana) are relatively new to the Philippine archipelago, introduced about 100 years ago by the Spaniards who got the seeds from Mexico. The fruit was introduced again in the early 1900’s by the Americans who, working with the Philippine Department of Agriculture, introduced the fruit from plants in Hawaii. A native of Mexico or thereabouts, all of the 500+ varieties of avocado on the planet today are descended from one of three original types of fruit from the Central American Peninsula. The fruit thrives in the Philippines and it is estimated that we produce nearly 50,000 tonnes of the fruit every year, mostly in backyards as opposed to organized plantations, according to government estimates.
