Common Name
Avocado
Family
LAURACEAE
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Trees Tree-like Palms & Bamboos
Spanish Name
Aguacate
- Grows up to 35m tall cultivated in open areas. Some specific varieties are useful for the ecological restoration in each bioregion.
- Potential pollinators are honeybees, stingless bees, wasps, flies, beetles and even bats.
- Expectorant, febrifuge, antidiarrheal, emmenagogue and vermifuge.
- Maceration of fresh leaves is used to trat skin disorders, headaches and joint pain. PROPAGATION: Seeds