The Hass avocado ( /ˈhæs/), sometimes marketed as the Haas avocado ( /ˈhɑːs/), is a cultivar of avocado with dark green-colored, bumpy skin. It was first grown and sold by Southern California mail carrier and amateur horticulturist Rudolph Hass, who also gave it his name.
The Hass avocado is a medium-sized berry weighing 200-300 grams. When ripe the skin becomes a dark purplish-black and yields to gentle pressure.
Owing to its taste, size, shelf-life, high growing yield and in some areas, year-round harvesting, the Hass cultivar is the most commercially popular avocado worldwide. In the United States it accounts for more than 80% of the avocado crop, 95% of the California crop and is the most widely grown avocado in New Zealand.
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—Robert Hass (b. 1941)