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Avocado Flower

Avocado

This is an avocado flower from a tree on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Macro

Definition/Function:

KINGDOM: Plantae /Angiosperms /Magnoliids ORDER: Laurales FAMILY: Lauraceae GENUS: Persea SPECIES: americana

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References:

Faegri, Knut and Johs Iversen, TEXTBOOK OF POLLEN ANALYSIS, Hafner Publishing Company, 1964.

Kapp, Ronald O., HOW TO KNOW POLLEN AND SPORES, Wm. C. Brown Company, 1969.

Moore, P.D., J. A. Webb, and M. E. Collinson, POLLEN ANALYSIS, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1991