Avocado Persea americana . Domestication: approximately 6000 BC, modern day Peru. Native form: ciollo Domesticated into three separate landraces. Avocado is a fruit in the form of a berry with a single seed. Earliest written account of an avocado is 1519. Earliest account in English is 1669, when the term avocado was first coined. Through the domestication process the avocado was bred to have a larger fruit size than it’s native ciollo. As the man was descending an avocado tree she struck at him so vehemently that his right leg fell from his body, and he lay helpless. Gathering up the fruit, the woman hurried to the tapir's hiding-place, and the wicked couple went away together. Seriokai was found by a neighbor, who stanched his wound and took him home, where he was nursed back to health. So soon as he could, he mended his leg with a wooden stump; then, armed with bow and arrows, he started after the runaways. Although their path had long been oblitera