Avocado (Persea americana)

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Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name: Persea americana Mill.
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.: Persea americana
Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.: Mill.
Common names: Avocado, Avocado, Alligator pear, Pear Tree, avocado pear
Names in other languages (72)
Abacateiro, Advocaatpeer, Advokaatpeer, Aguacate, Alageta', Alligator pear, Alligatorbirne, Alpukat, Alvocat, Alvocater, Amerikinė persėja, Apokat, Avocadobaum, Avocadobirne, Avocadopalme, Avocadopeer, Avocatier, Avocatier d'Amérique, Avocat, Avocado, Avocatier, Avocatier d'Amérique, Avocatier, Avocatier, Avocatier d’Amérique, Avoka, Avokadopeer, Avokádó, Awacati, Bata, Butterfrucht, M'zavoca, Murgpeer, Pallta, Paya, Pear, Peya, Pêra-abacate, Uñüque, Zaboca (Trinidad & Tobago); Aguacate, Zavoca, abacate, abokado, abukado, afkati, ahuacate, avacado, avacatal, avokado, awokado właściwe, ceeneeteenice'ee', cic on, cupanda, e li, hedelmäavokado, hruškovec americký, louro-abacate, oj, palta, palto, smaczliwka wdzięczna, wani-nashi, Αβοκάντο, Авакада, Авокадо, Авокадо американське, Персея американская, Ավոկադո, අල්ගැට පේර, อาโวคาโด, ប័រ, ប្លែប័រ, アボカド, 樟梨, 酪梨, 鰐梨, 鳄梨
Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).: Plantae
Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.: Tracheophyta
Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).: Magnoliopsida
Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).: Laurales
Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).: Lauraceae
Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.: Persea
Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.: americana
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.: species
Reference species: Persea americana
Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.: accepted name

Photos and conservation status

IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.: Least concern (LC)
Source: IUCN Red List via GBIF, queried on 2026-10-09 10:53.

Photo of Persea americana Mill. — Photo: Hugo Saulino · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-09 10:53.

Interacciones documentadas

GloBI says it is documented somewhere in the world. Biolitica answers whether it could happen here.

A documented interaction means it was recorded somewhere in the world. It does not mean it occurs here.

Types shown: 1 of 14 has its flowers visited by × 13 more types with data for this species

Flower visit

has its flowers visited by 153 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. Visiting a flower is not pollinating it. «Pollinates» is a different term and a different block, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism	Reads as	Studies	Where it was documented
European Honey Bee Apis mellifera Apidae	has its flowers visited by	10	not compared
10 sources · 14 records Records of organisms other than plants having flower visitors are probably errors Published in globalbioticinteractions/refuted-biotic-interactions-by-eol Record contexts (sample): no place published · no date published; no place published · no date published Thorp, R.W., A.M. Wenner, and J.F. Barthell. 2000. Pollen and nectar resource overlap among bees on Santa Cruz Island. Pages 261 268. In: D.R. Browne, K.L. Mitchell, and H.W. Chaney (eds.), Fifth California Islands Symposium. MBC Applied Environmental Sciences, Costa Mesa, CA. Published in Extended-Bee-Network/bee-interaction-database Record contexts (sample): no place published · Jan. 1, 1994; no place published · Jan. 1, 1994 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/98702616 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Oct. 19, 2021 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/312341029 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Sept. 7, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/267035993 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · March 18, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/392634228 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 18, 2026 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/272398950 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 23, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/73760111 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 12, 2021 · Human observation And 2 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Asian Hornet Vespa velutina Vespidae	has its flowers visited by	4	not compared
4 sources · 4 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/267491620 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · March 29, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/269094379 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 7, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/269596013 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 10, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/73384853 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 9, 2021 · Human observation A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Speckled Wood Pararge aegeria Nymphalidae	has its flowers visited by	3	not compared
3 sources · 3 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/269103677 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 7, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/269258363 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 8, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/269427125 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 9, 2025 · Human observation A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Tapered Drone Fly Eristalis similis Syrphidae	has its flowers visited by	3	not compared
3 sources · 3 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/269596157 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 10, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/269596228 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 10, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/74045244 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 15, 2021 · Human observation A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.

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Interaction data from Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI), GloBI 0.11. Each row keeps the citation its own study published.

Interactions are published at species level: they are not resolved by variety or race.

Each block is headed by the source's own term, read from this species' end — not by a category of ours. Two similar terms are not merged.

«Documented here» means the interaction was observed in this territory. It is not evidence that the species is here, and it does not enter the niche model.

Acompañantes documentados

This agronomic reading comes from a source reserved for internal use, so it is not shown here.

Documented uses and recommendations

Uses and recommendations that a source documents for this species beside a crop, each in its own context. They are the source's statements, not traits of the species and not Biolítica's recommendations, and none of them is a relation between two species.

Not grouped under a navigation concept

What the source states	Claim type	Context	Source
Árbol nativo candidato de paisaje	Recommendation of a guideRecommended	coffee · Veracruz, México	Biolítica · compilación de café de CIE-10 sha256:e376ce4d636a
1 source · 2 records Flores-Ortiz et al. 2025 Record contexts (sample): coffee · Veracruz, México; coffee · Veracruz, México A guide's recommendation, in its own context. It is not a measurement and does not carry over to another crop or region.
Árbol con valoración local	Documented useAsserted	coffee · Veracruz, México	Biolítica · compilación de café de CIE-10 sha256:e376ce4d636a
1 source · 1 record Flores-Ortiz et al. 2025 Context: coffee · Veracruz, México A documented use says what the source records this species is used for, in that context. It is not a measurement and does not carry over to another crop or region.