National Avocado Day Timeline

8000 BC

Avocados eaten in Mexico

Archaeologists have found evidence that wild avocados were gathered and eaten in central Mexico.

3000 BC

Avocado trees grown

Researchers believe that Mesoamerican tribes like the Inca, the Olmec and the Maya grew domesticated avocado trees.

1696

The avocado is named

Naturalist, Sir Hans Sloane, names “the avocado or alligator pear-tree" in his catalog of Jamaican plants.

1833

Welcome to the U.S.

Horticulturist, Henry Perrine, first plants avocados in Florida.

1950s

Into the mainstream

Avocados become commercially available in the U.S., with people mostly adding them to salads.