An avocado portrait epitomizing the primitive

Hardly any other fruit epitomizes the past, like the avocado.

Giant mammals delighted on these fruits millennia ago, bitting them directly from the trees where they grow in pairs. Growing in pairs appears to be the reason they are called avocados, from the Nahuatl word for testicles.

Persea americana Miller

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