Persea Schiedeana

[idontknowhatnametuse]

Does anyone know anything about this avocado species? I have one tree since 2019, it's not common because it's vulnerable and endangered.

[Silas_Sancona]

10 hours ago, idontknowhatnametuse said:

Does anyone know anything about this avocado species? I have one tree since 2019, it's not common because it's vulnerable and endangered.

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/285245-Persea-schiedeana

[Victor likes palms]

On 12/11/2022 at 2:14 PM, idontknowhatnametuse said:

Does anyone know anything about this avocado species? I have one tree since 2019, it's not common because it's vulnerable and endangered.

This relative of the avocado is called chinin in Tabasco and Yucatan. In Tabasco and Yucatan they heat up some tortillas and cut chinin to eat them in tacos. Instead of the avocado we are use to its longer and white on the inside, when i went on vacation to the Yucatan peninsula I wanted to try it but i guess it was out of season. How were you able to get ahold of it, i cant find it anywhere. Its a very cool find!

[idontknowhatnametuse]

15 minutes ago, Victor valadez said:

This relative of the avocado is called chinin in Tabasco and Yucatan. In Tabasco and Yucatan they heat up some tortillas and cut chinin to eat them in tacos. Instead of the avocado we are use to its longer and white on the inside, when i went on vacation to the Yucatan peninsula I wanted to try it but i guess it was out of season. How were you able to get ahold of it, i cant find it anywhere. Its a very cool find!

I "stole" it from a local park in 2019 when I was obsessed with Pseudobombax ellipticum trees, I thought it was a self sown pseudobombax seedling when I picked it up but it ended up being this tree species. However it's the most common Persea sp. here in Monterrey as an ornamental tree. I still have this plant to this day. I don't know which nursery sells them though. Very fast for me.

[Victor likes palms]

5 minutes ago, idontknowhatnametuse said:

I "stole" it from a local park in 2019 when I was obsessed with Pseudobombax ellipticum trees, I thought it was a self sown pseudobombax seedling when I picked it up but it ended up being this tree species. However it's the most common Persea sp. here in Monterrey as an ornamental tree. I still have this plant to this day. I don't know which nursery sells them though. Very fast for me.

Monterrey mexico? Have you ever had a fruit set?

[idontknowhatnametuse]

Just now, Victor valadez said:

Monterrey mexico? Have you ever had a fruit set?

My tree never set seed nor flowered because it's in a pot still, I'm planning to plant it next spring. A tree in the street where I live set fruit every year but I think it died last year because the owners didn't water it.

[Victor likes palms]

1 minute ago, idontknowhatnametuse said:

My tree never set seed nor flowered because it's in a pot still, I'm planning to plant it next spring. A tree in the street where I live set fruit every year but I think it died last year because the owners didn't water it.

Im suprised as its natural habitat is a very humid and wet place, interesting fact the yucatan peninsula has no natural rivers

[idontknowhatnametuse]

3 minutes ago, Victor valadez said:

Monterrey mexico? Have you ever had a fruit set?

I just took this photo of it, it's raining and it's dark so the quality isn't very good. The one in the left is a hass avocado I germinated in 2019.

[Victor likes palms]

What hardiness zone is Monterrey?

[idontknowhatnametuse]

Just now, Victor valadez said:

What hardiness zone is Monterrey?

10A-10B

[Victor likes palms]

1 minute ago, idontknowhatnametuse said:

I just took this photo of it, it's raining and it's dark so the quality isn't very good. The one in the left is a hass avocado I germinated in 2019.

That looks great, ive never seen the plant in the states

[idontknowhatnametuse]

Just now, Victor valadez said:

That looks great, ive never seen the plant in the states

I thought it was more common, there's a slightly bigger one in the park of my neighborhood, gonna take a picture of it tomorrow.

[Victor likes palms]

1 minute ago, idontknowhatnametuse said:

I thought it was more common, there's a slightly bigger one in the park of my neighborhood, gonna take a picture of it tomorrow.

Well to be fair i live in south texas and i dont think ive ever seen a normal avocado tree over here.