Avocado Update – Week 2

Remember the amazing synchronous dichogamy that is the begatting strategy of avocados? No? Go here.

I figured if the girl bee workers had done their job, some of the ovaries of these avocado blossoms would be swollen.

Before:

And indeed. After

Sacrificing a future, creamy fleshed avocado, I dissected a bloom. And about the size of two pinheads was the result:

For science. Is this the tiniest avocado you’ve ever seen?

Stay tuned.