Avocado Trivia: Things To Know About The Avocado

Guatemala and Mexico are the birth places for the delicious avocado fruit.

Avocado Trivia 1: The word avocado comes from the the Spanish word aguacate which in turn comes from the Mexican Nahuatl language word ahuacacuauhitl, which means testicle tree. Avocado in Maya is on and palta en Quechua. Source: UC Davis.

Avocado Trivia 2: The people from La Antigua Guatemala are known as Panzas Verdes, green bellies. They have gotten this non-offensive nickname for the great amounts of avocados they ate in the past.

Avocado Trivia 3: Wilson Popenoe took the local avocado variant to California and from it the California avocado emerged (hass). Read this plaque placed by the California Avocado Society in Antigua Guatemala’s plaza mayor (main plaza) in which they recognized and appreciated the contribution of Antigua Guatemala to the development of the avocado industry in California.

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