Editing Avocado (section)

=== Fruit ===
[[File:Flower of Avocado 2.jpg|thumb|Avocado flower]]
[[File:Pollen grains of avocado plant.jpg|thumb|Pollen grains of avocado]]

The avocado fruit is a [[Climacteric (botany)|climacteric]],<ref name="Yahia2011">{{cite book|author=Elhadi M. Yahia|title=Postharvest Biology and Technology of Tropical and Subtropical Fruits: Açai to Citrus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oO51AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA125|year=2011|publisher=Elsevier Science|isbn=978-0-85709-276-2|pages=125–}}</ref> single-seeded [[berry (botany)|berry]], due to the imperceptible [[endocarp]] covering the seed,<ref name=storey/><ref name="whiley">{{cite book|author=A. W. Whiley |author2=B. Schaffer |author3=B. N. Wolstenholme |title=The Avocado: Botany, Production, and Uses |date=2002 |publisher=CABI |isbn=978-0851999784 |page=30 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CxmvpAYkL54C&pg=PA30}}</ref> rather than a [[drupe]].<ref name="Essig2015">{{cite book|author=Frederick B. Essig|title=Plant Life: A Brief History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XvhzBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA162|year= 2015|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-026658-5|pages=162–}}</ref> The pear-shaped fruit is usually {{convert|7|-|20|cm|in|frac=2|abbr=on}} long, weighs between {{convert|100|and|1000|g|oz|frac=2|abbr=on}}, and has a large central [[seed]], {{convert|5|-|6.4|cm|in|frac=4|abbr=on}} long.<ref name=morton/> Early wild avocados prior to domestication had much smaller seeds around {{Convert|2.1-2.2|cm|in}} in diameter, likely corresponding to smaller fruit size.<ref name=":0" />

The species produces various cultivars with larger, fleshier fruits with a thinner [[exocarp]] because of [[plant breeding|selective breeding]] by humans.<ref name="Kole2011">{{cite book|author=Chittaranjan Kole|title=Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources: Tropical and Subtropical Fruits|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WY4zSqE8sdgC&pg=PA172|year=2011|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-642-20447-0|pages=172–}}</ref>