Happy Saturday. Swell. This avocado has a huge pit. Less meat than pit. I'm just wondering if it's a flaw in the design of the avocado or is there some kind of like evolutionary purpose for this huge pit? I would love your thoughts on evolutionary things that confound you. I think at one point maybe pit had a smaller pit. I don't know. Just having a moment with the fact that it's a big optic avocado
Tim Ereneta
@Tim · 1:54
However, even I'm surprised at the size of this particular seed. I wonder if this genetic anomaly, this seed, which is too big, is because the main species that used to eat and distribute avocados are extinct. If you think of the giant megafauna of north and Central America, the giant armadillos and the giant sloths, they could eat avocados with large pits and then excrete them elsewhere and propagate the species. Those fauna are extinct. So the plant is now not being selected for
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:11
And none of them had the pit as large as the one I showed you. So to your point, I think it is a mutation or maybe a survival mechanism. As you said, I wish I was with the tree that wore this beautiful avocado. But I'm fascinated now about the different kinds of avocados. And I want to share this link with you cause now I'm on a Hunt to taste every kind of avocado. Thank you for your response
Tim Ereneta
@Tim · 0:24
I think I only became aware of different varieties of avocado when we moved into our house, which has an avocado tree in it, and my wife refused to eat the fruit of the tree because it wasn't the creamy California Haas avocado that we know, know and love. It's a different variety. I suspect it's a bacon I've written about it or I've talked about it before. I'll send you an invite to that swell