Avocado is also known as avocado, avocado, camphor pear, avocado. It is a fruit as well as one of the woody oil tree species, belonging to the camphor family of the angiosperm phylum. The plant can grow up to 20 meters high. Leaves are alternate, evergreen, 12 to 25 centimeters long. The flowers are small, inconspicuous, yellowish-green, and about 0.5 to 1 centimeter wide. The fruit is a drupe, pear-shaped, about 7 to 20 centimeters long, with a fruit weight of about 100 to 1,000 grams.
The seeds are very large, growing in the center of the fruit, about 3 to 5 centimeters in diameter. The avocado is native to Central America and Mexico; it has been introduced in Taiwan, mainland Guangdong, Fujian and Yunnan.
The fruit is a fruit of high nutritional value, containing a variety of vitamins, rich in fat and protein, sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium and other content is also high, in addition to raw fruit for consumption can also be used as dishes and canned; kernel containing fatty oil, non-drying oil, with a mild aroma, for food, medicine and cosmetics for industrial use.