|titre=Résumé des usages
|texte=*fruit consommé habituellement comme légume
*huile de la pulpe alimzentaire et cosmétique
*graine : source d'encre noire
}}
== Description ==
== Usages ==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tMVS6R1CfI&t vidéo : Avocat : la précieuse production corse]
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|texte=This species, already cultivated in prehistoric time, was distributed previously to the beginning of the Spanish conquest from Mexico to Peru (in South America only in the region of the Andes). At present it is cultivated worldwide in the tropical and subtropical countries. Considerable production areas are in Mexico, Israel, South Africa, USA (California, Florida, Hawaiian Isl.), Dominican Republic, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Australia. The avocado belongs to the most appreciated fruit-trees of the world. It is cultivated for the oily fruits, which are characterized by a high nutritive value and good digestibility. About 75% of the whole fruit consists of a tasty pulp, which contains up to 30% of fatty oil. The fruit represents an important component of the food in Central America, the West Indies and in northern South America. It is eaten raw or used salted as salad, it is also eaten mixed with other fruits and vegetables or sweetened in icecream and milk drinks and also used acidified by vinegar as spread. The tasty oil, characterized by a high content of unsaturated fatty acids, is highly esteemed as cooking-oil and baking-oil. The oil of the pulp and the seeds serves the manufacturing of cosmetic and pharmaceutic products. The seeds furnish a black sap, used as indelible ink.
|auteur =Mansfeld.
}}
== Références ==
*[https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=27393 GRIN]
*[http://www.ipni.org/ipni/simplePlantNameSearch.do?find_wholeName=Persea%20americana&output_format=normal&query_type=by_query&back_page=query_ipni.html IPNI]
*[http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrcapex/f?p=185:4546:132916441287460110678441975895::NO::P7_BOTNAMEmodule,P7_DB_CHECKBOX1mf_use,P7_DB_CHECKBOX2source,P7_DB_CHECKBOX4akzanz,rehm,akzname,taxid:mf,,botnam,0,,Persea%20americana,,, 15043 Mansfeld]
*[http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Persea.html Multilingual Plant Name Database]
*[http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/nexus/Persea_americana_nex.html NewCrop Purdue]