Purple Avocado (forum)

Brendan starts with ...
Hi All,
I had a quarter of this avo this morning,(on toast), taste is better then Hass IMHO.

The flesh up top is 30mm thick, flesh at the bottom is 25mm thick.

It's a seed-grown tree about 33 years old :-)
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Time: 17th April 2013 8:45am

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amanda says...
Yum Brendan! The flesh looks great...is it your tree? If not - maybe u should graft it!?

I wonder where the purple skin gene came from?

Time: 17th April 2013 9:22am

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Jason says...
Nice, you can see from the photo even that the flesh is real smooth. I thought it would be a really dark purple almost black like they are near mexico city. I haven't seen a light purple one though so that's something interesting, maybe a hybrid between the two types. The seeds arrived too :).

Time: 18th April 2013 12:55am

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Brendan says...
Hi amanda & Jason,
Yes, it's my tree & it's a seed-grown avo, so the seeds 'should' be true to type.
Funny thing Jason, some years the purple colour does go very dark, almost black, as you said?
Btw, it's a type 'A' :-)

Time: 18th April 2013 9:55am

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Brendan says...
This is a ripe 'purple avocado' Jason. You can see the skin is nearly black, flesh is 'better than Hass' IMO. Tree has now finished bearing for this year :-(
BTW, this avo was just a tad under 600g! Hass are around 150g.
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Time: 20th June 2013 10:01am

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