Persea americana
Persea americana (binomen a Philippo Miller anno 1768 statutum) est planta florens in Mexico et Media America orta, quae ad familiam Lauracearum pertinet. Fructus est esculentus et adhibitus est in guacamole parando.

Semina huius speciei reperta sunt in locis archaeologicis Mexicanis Coxcatlán, El Riego, Purrón, unde domesticationem hac regione anno circiter 6 500 a.C.n. inceptam censetur.

Notae

Bibliographia 

 Fontes anteriores
 1572 : Henry Hawks in Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation (1a ed. Londinii: George Bishop, 1589) p. 547 (alvacatas)
 1768 : Philip Miller, The Gardeners Dictionary. 8a ed.

 Eruditio recentior
 Fruit-bearing Forest Trees: technical notes. (FAO Forestry Paper, 34.) Romae: Food and Agriculture Organization, 1982. Textus
 Sophie D. Coe, America's First Cuisines (Austinopoli: University of Texas Press, 1994) pp. 44-46

Nexus externi 

Species plantarum
Fruges Americae mediae
Fructus
Persea
Taxa Miller
Taxa 1768