Description: The avocado tree is originated from South America. Its cultivation is also very frequent in tropical and Mediterranean areas. This tree was planted using a seed of unknown origin. The seed was planted in a vegetable garden cultivated by the residents after the houses in the neighborhood were demolished. Other species were cultivated for people’s own use and to be commercialized such as potatoes, onions, cassava, sugar cane, beans, and corn. (*)
Provided by: Benvindo Moreira, a Cape Verde – born Portuguese.
Present Location: I did not survive the transplanting
Last revision date: March 2016
(I) Numbering in accordance with the archive of trees and plants identified in the Quinta da Vitoria 2012 and 2013.
(II) Mabberley, David J. Mabberley´s Plant-Book: A Portable Dictionary of Plants, their Classifications and Uses. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
(*)Testimonies of residents gathered in a set of recorded conversations in the neighborhood of Quinta da Vitória and after the demolition in Lisbon, Loures and London between July 2012 and October 2014.
