Avocado ‘Bacon’

Avocado ‘Bacon’ produces medium-sized fruit with smooth, thin, green skin and yellow-green flesh that is smooth and silky with a light flavor. The skin of the fruit remains green but may darken slightly when it ripens. It is typically harvested from late autumn to early spring. While it is self-fertile, it produces better crops when planted alongside Avocado ‘Hass’. Avocado ‘Bacon’ forms a thick canopy with a spreading habit. Avocado is evergreen and native to Central America from Mexico to Costa Rica. Avocado ‘Bacon’ was developed in 1954 by James Bacon in Buena Park, California, United States. James developed Avocado ‘Bacon’ by hybridising two avocado cultivars from Mexico.