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The world's avocado industry essentially comes from a single tree - the mother Hass. Apparently at a conference years back, organisers gave out bud wood from i
by gravelc 7y ago
The world's avocado industry essentially comes from a single tree - the mother Hass. Apparently at a conference years back, organisers gave out bud wood from it, so there're clones spread across the world now (the original is now dead).
Lots of different root-stocks, it should be added.
- mikorym 7y agoWith a few exceptions; 80% of the market is Hass. One of the exceptions is South Africa, where other varieties are common, but Hass is still a majority. Also note that there are new "Hass" varieties that are essentially mutations of the original Hass (it would seem; often it is not certain what the actual DNA of the variant would be or how it came to be). Note that the Dominican republic is usually listed as a top 3 producer, but none of it is Hass and none of it is exported.