Big Island Avocados Chefs’ Favorites
Rodrigues
Alpha Ixtapan J-70
Ashikawa
C3 #3
Mr. T
Fukumitsu
Kona Experiment Station HES
N379
San Miguel Purple
C3 #4
Jan Boyce
CC3 #5
Sharwil
Jeanette
Hall
KES MNL Murashige
Malama
Beshore Hamachi
Chris Kelly
Hashimoto
Semil 34
Hayes
Kampong
Kellum
Cobain
Serpa
Ohata
Ota
Ilialu
Thompson Leal
Collin 33
Pankay
Infante
Yamagata Little Cado / Wurtz
Cooper Late Green Infante 2
Fuerte
Masami
Papaiko
Principe
Yamane
Itzamna Reed Fujikawa
R11 T14
E3 R12 P4
Tamashiro Kosel
Combo 2
Mex 5
Nishikawa
Hulumanu
Cocktail Fuerte
E3 R10 P2
Linda
Combo 1
Rincon
MAL25 R12 P4
CRC 151-2
Ruehle
R21 T5
Hass
Shirai Kaneko
R9 T6
CC LoV
Naranjo Daily 11 / Otaro
Case
R 5-12
L149
Nabal Kakazu
Nishikawa Seedling
Nena
CC BJW
Schattauer 2
Johnson
Malama 2
NA 66 Schattauer 1
MacDonald
BR 25-3
HL R5 T3
Green Gold
AR 911
Kahaluu
MIT 13 Beardsley
Waiakea Experiment Station
Other varieties reported in Hawaii but not pictured: Adachi Al Boyce Anaheim Avila Aztec Azul Basalua Benick Bon Booth Brogden Butler Celaya CES 526 Chang Cho Chrones Colinred B Commonfort 48 Duke Dr. Lyon DW1 Bank Elsie Esbank
Frowe Garcia Grip 12 Hansen Healani Higashi Holt Irwin Jaina Josefina Kaguah Kanola Lehua Leucadia Lula Lycett Mac Arthur Manik Masutomi Medeiros Notley Mexicola Monge Murietta
Nowels Nutmeg Obregon Organal Ozaki Panchoy Pinkerton Pollock Reinecke Sato T-53 Sexton Seyde Simmonds St. Claire Tanabe Teague Thevenin Tolbe Towse Tsutsumi Wainaku Wilder Wong Zutano
Vargas
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Dupuis
Mex 9 Egami 1
R27 T22 Mex 14
Egami 2
Esparta
Tanaka 2
R27 T26 Mex 24 Kashlen
Egami 3
Vero Beach Seedling
R27 T40 Kosel - Hilo
MK R2 T1
Egami 4
RoA N 112
E3 R13 P3
San Miguel Green
Acknowledgements:
County of Hawaii Department of Research and Development University of Hawaii CTAHR Hawaii Tropical Fruit Growers American Culinary Federation Kona Kohala Chefs Association Kelly Asai, Silvia Gianetti-Barber, Dr. Catherine Chan-Halbrendt, Dale Evans, Trent Hata, Dennis Ida, Ryan Kaneko, Jyotsna Krishnakumar, Marc Meisner, Dr. Mike Nagao, Dr. Wayne Nishijima, Margaret Schattauer, Lloyd Shirai, Harold Stene, Lisa Taniguchi, Billy & Brooks Wakefield and Dr. Francis. Zee.
Wahiawa
Avocados, (Persea americana), may have been introduced to Hawaii as early as 1794, possibly by Don Francisco de Paula Marin, a Spanish horticulturalist and confidant of King Kamehameha. Thousands of seedlings have flourished in Hawaii’s microclimates over the past 200 years along with selections brought into the islands after 1901 with the beginning of Hawaii agriculture experiment stations. The fruit can vary greatly from year to year in size, oil content and quantity produced on the tree,depending on weather and soil nutrition. The same or very similar avocados may have different names at different island locations making identification extremely difficult. The avocados shown on this poster were chosen based on University of Hawaii Experiment Station records as well as fromgrower’s families where original or old growth trees exist.The sizes are relative but not always representative in relation to each other.In some cases there may be very few of specific types of trees grown at the experiment stations and not commercially available. They are shown as an expression of the great diversity of avocados that exists in Hawaii.
