Avocado Types: 15 Top Butter Fruit Varieties, Characteristics and Facts
1. Choquette Avocados:
Choquette avocado is a mix of two different types – Guatemalan and West Indian avocados that originated in Florida. This fruit is dark-green in color and oval-shaped. This Type of Avocado has high water content, smooth and glossy skin. In addition, Choquette avocado is known to release a silky type of fluid when you cut into it. Therefore, the flesh itself is pretty watery and has a mild taste, and it is one of the Guatemalan avocado varieties.
2. Gwen Avocados:
Gwen avocado is dark-green in color and has an oval shape. This Avocado has creamy flesh that is flavorful and is larger in form with a texture similar to Hass avocado. Developed first in California, the pebbly skin is thick and easy to peel. It has a small to medium-sized seed, and the fruit weighs up to 15 ounces.
Gwen avocado grows around a height of 15 feet maximum. It is one of the smaller Avocado varieties. It blooms in Spring and ripens the following May through September. You can grow Gwen avocados in large suitable containers because of the prolific fruit production and compact size.
3. Hass Avocados:
Hass Avocado is the butter avocado variety that has a purplish-black color. The fruit’s thick skin turns dark purple as it ripens with a velvet-like texture and tastes somewhat nutty. This fruit is a perfect option for guacamole because of its exquisite flavor. Although you can prune them shorter, Hass avocado trees can grow up to 35 feet and are frost-sensitive below 32 degrees F.
Hass avocado blooms from February to May and ripens April through September from previous years’ flowers. The Hass avocado has fruits on them for about 12 to 14 months.
4. Pryor/Del Rio Avocados:
Pryor or Del Rio avocados are the cold-hardy avocado varieties also called fantastic. This avocado tree can reach 25 to 30 feet high, growing into a medium-large tree. The texture of these avocados is creamy, with a mild flavor, and has a good oil content. It has a medium to olive green thin skin and is a reasonably small fruit. Fantastic avocados bloom from winter through late Spring and ripen from August to November.
