Persea americana 'Fuerte' (Avocado)

The Fuerte avocado tree is a cold resistant (for an avocado) selection from a cross of Mexican and Guatemalan type avocados. Fuerte is a very high eating quality winter and spring fruit, and flowers prodigiously from may to november (generally), but Fuerte has a high winter temperature requirement for fruit set. In cooler positions and cooler years it produces very few or even no fruit, although it may produce a number of tiny, poorly ripening seedless 'cukes'. It is a 'B' flower type. Early set fruit are much superior to Hass early set fruit in july, but its erratic fruit set in cool conditions makes it more suited for the warmest areas of New Zealand - and the very warmest aspects within those areas.