This queen of avocados owes its name to both size and flavor. Simply said, the 20 to 30 ounce pear shaped fruit contains a very small seed and flesh rated as excellent. At a recently held avocado tasting in Santa Cruz, California, when the Queen was halved and held up to the audience for display, the result was first a long hush and then wild applause. And well deserved: the avocado was both enormous and delicious.
The original Queen tree grew in Antigua, Guatemala and was introduced to the United States in 1914 by E.E. Knight. The tree is vigorous and needs to be pruned to keep it to a backyard size. Here in frosty Santa Cruz, California, this “B” flowering tree shows itself to be fairly hardy for a Guatemalan type.
$37 per tree (6″x6″x16″ pot)
Available on Mexican seedling rootstock.
SOLD OUT FOR 2012.
We are currently accepting orders for delivery in April, 2013. Requests will be filled in the order received until available stock is gone.