Species · Lauraceae

Avocado

Persea americana. Lauraceae, genus Persea. What this plant is called and where it is recorded, plus the published numbers the keystone holds so far.

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Rank
species
Names
40 in 10 languages
Numbers
15 (15 with a source)
Keystone status
partial

Names

No scientific synonyms are recorded for this name.

English: Avocado, Avocado Pear, Avocado, Alligator Pear, Pear Tree.

In other languages

  • Chinese: e li
  • Finnish: avokado
  • French: Avocatier, Avocatier d'Amérique, Avocat, Avocado, Avocatier, Avocatier d'Amérique, Avocatier, Avocatier, Avocatier d’Amérique
  • German: Avocado, Avocadobaum, Avocadopalme
  • Japanese: abokado, wani-nashi
  • Portuguese: abacate, abacateiro, louro-abacate
  • Spanish: aguacate, palta, palto
  • Swedish: avocado, avokado
  • khm: ប័រ

Names with no language recorded: abacate, abokado, Alligator pear, Avocado, Avocadobaum, Avocatier, Avoka, Awacati, e li, M'zavoca, Pear, Uñüque, wani-nashi, Zaboca (Trinidad & Tobago); Aguacate, Zavoca.

Where it is recorded

Taxonomy record sources: GBIF (CC BY 4.0), USDA_PLANTS_CATALOG (Public Domain). Loaded from the botanica open cultivated-plant knowledge base and the GBIF backbone; each row keeps its origin.

What the sources say it wants

Each line shows the band, then the kind of source and the citation. "Published" means the number is printed on the cited page; "derived" means it was computed from published numbers with the formula recorded on the row; "external API" rows are refreshed nightly from a live source; "curated" rows are OAT's own working values from June 2026.

Whole cycle

ZoneMeasureBandSource
TimingCrop coefficient, end of season (ratio)0.75published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998
TimingCrop coefficient, initial stage (ratio)0.6published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998
TimingCrop coefficient, mid-season (ratio)0.85published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998

Phenophases observed by the USA National Phenology Network

12 phenophases are tracked for this species and refreshed nightly, as stage triggers: Breaking leaf buds, Colored leaves, Early season leaf expansion, Falling leaves, Flowers or flower buds, Fruits, Full flowering, Leaves, Open flowers, Recent fruit or seed drop, Ripe fruits, Young leaves.

Keystone status

Partial. The KEEP rule asks for a growth stage and a band in each of light, air and root zone before a crop counts as complete; this plant is in the keystone with what its sources give so far.

Generated 2026-09-15 from the OAT plant keystone. Source types and citations are carried on every row; the keystone snapshot that the Library instruments read is plant-targets.json and its quality sheet is plant-targets.quality.json.