Description: The avocado tree is originally from South America. Its cultivation is also very frequent in tropical and Mediterranean areas. Some trees could be found in Quinta da Vitoria. The trees of bigger dimension were planted by Aniceto forty years ago, when he started living in the neighborhood. (*)
Provided by: Aniceto Tavares, born in Cape Verde.
Present Location: Vitoria Garden Collection (the original tree remains in the Quinta da Vitoria neighborhood. It was replaced by a similar tree, which was transplanted in October 2014)
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 later to your demolition, recorded in Lisbon, Loures and London between July 2012 and October 2014.
