Avocadovariety
Wertz
An avocado variety with narrowly egg-shaped fruit and green skin at maturity. Its flowers are type A. Introduced in 1948.
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Origin · Encinitas, California
Released 1948
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How to spot it
- Skin
- Peels YesSkin texture MediumSkin thickness ThickRipe skin colour GreenUnripe skin colour Green
- Shape
- Narrowly obovate
- Seeds & stone
- Seed size Large
- Appearance
- Seed : skin : flesh by weight 20:22:58
Origin & family
Where Wertz began
Recorded origin
Encinitas, California
- Released
- 1948
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- peels
- Yes
- seed size
- Large
- fruit shape
- Narrowly obovate
- blossom type
- A
- skin texture
- Medium
- skin thickness
- Thick
- skin color ripe
- Green
- skin color unripe
- Green
- ratio seed skin flesh
- 20:22:58
- average fruit weight oz
- 10 to 20