Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
The avocados available at your local supermarket are almost all Hass avocados, grown in Mexico year-round. But there are many kinds of avocado, and one enormous variety from the Dominican Republic called the Carla has spawned a lawsuit by the company Aiosa, who owns the first Carla tree and patented the fruit, against the distributor Fresh Directions International for selling Carla clones.
What’s so special about the Carla avocado?“If you can keep yourself in the market longer and you have a late variety, then you maintain your position in the market, and you can sell fruit,” said Jonathan Crane, a tropical fruit specialist at the University of Florida. “So Carla is a late variety that the Dominican Republic avocado industry purposely is growing to enter…
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