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.
Read more about Hass Avocado: History, Bearing Pattern
Famous quotes containing the word hass:
“There are moments when the body is as numinous
as words, days that are the good flesh continuing
Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings,
saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.”
—Robert Hass (b. 1941)