Varieties
Chosen for vigor, productivity, and resilience.
Hulumanu
Rich • Buttery • Slightly Sweet
Hulumanu is a standout avocado variety prized for its exceptionally smooth, creamy texture and balanced buttery flavor accented with a subtle natural sweetness. Its rich eating quality makes it a favorite for fresh eating, dips, smoothies, and simply enjoying by the spoonful.
The fruit is typically medium-sized, ranging from approximately 12 to 24 ounces, with attractive green skin that remains green even at maturity. Inside, the flesh is creamy, satisfying, and consistently flavorful throughout the fruit.
Harvest season generally begins in late August and continues through October, making Hulumanu an excellent early-season avocado that helps bridge the gap before many winter varieties begin producing.
The tree is known for dependable production and strong performance under Hawaiʻi growing conditions, making it a reliable choice for both home orchards and local market growers seeking consistent yields and premium fruit quality.
With its excellent flavor, versatile culinary use, and reliable harvests, Hulumanu has become a highly appreciated locally grown avocado variety throughout Hawaiʻi.
Egami
Large • Rich • Generous Harvest
Egami is a locally developed avocado cultivar well adapted to Hawaiʻi’s tropical growing conditions. Known for its vigorous growth and healthy evergreen canopy, this variety establishes quickly and can begin producing quality fruit within just a few years when grafted and properly cared for.
The fruit maintains an attractive glossy appearance on the tree and continues to ripen beautifully after harvest. Inside, the flesh develops a rich, creamy texture with excellent flavor and smooth eating quality highly suited for fresh consumption. One especially desirable characteristic of Egami is its peel-able skin, making preparation simple and convenient for everyday use in the kitchen.
Harvest season generally spans from October through December, providing dependable fall production with consistent fruit quality throughout the season.
Egami has become valued for its strong tree vigor, reliable performance, and high-quality fruit, making it an excellent choice for both home growers and orchard plantings throughout Hawaiʻi. Its combination of adaptability, productivity, and excellent eating characteristics continues to make it a standout locally grown avocado selection.
Improved Jumbo
Large • Smooth • Reliable Producer
Improved Jumbo is a vigorous and highly productive avocado variety recognized for its impressively large, oval-shaped fruit, commonly ranging from 32 - 40 ounces each. Its dependable yields and substantial fruit size make it an outstanding choice for growers seeking both productivity and quality.
The fruit features medium-thick green skin that remains green even at maturity, helping protect the smooth, creamy flesh inside. The flavor is mild, buttery, and approachable, with a medium oil content that appeals to a wide range of avocado preferences. As the season progresses, the fruit develops increasingly richer and fattier characteristics, especially in the later harvest months, as well as, easily separating from the skin.
Harvest season typically begins in late November and extends through February, providing generous winter production and excellent seasonal consistency.
The tree itself is vigorous and fast growing, capable of exceeding 25 feet in height if left unmanaged. Its strong growth habit makes it especially well suited for open plantings, larger landscapes, and productive orchard systems. With thoughtful pruning and canopy management, however, the tree can still be maintained at a more manageable harvest height.
Improved Jumbo combines reliable production, impressive fruit size, smooth eating quality, and strong tree vigor into a dependable avocado variety well adapted for Hawaiʻi growers and home orchards alike.
Pico Godreau
Buttery • Resilient • Impressive Size
Pico Godreau is an impressive avocado variety known for producing exceptionally large fruit, often averaging around 32 ounces each. Despite its size, the fruit maintains a wonderfully smooth, buttery texture with rich flavor and excellent eating quality.
Its small seed and abundant flesh provide an outstanding meat-to-seed ratio, making each fruit highly rewarding for both home consumption and sharing. The flavor is rich and satisfying, with the creamy consistency avocado lovers seek in premium varieties.
Originally selected for its strong performance under challenging conditions, Pico Godreau has shown excellent adaptation to coastal and dryland environments throughout Hawaiʻi. The variety demonstrates higher tolerance to air salinity than many common avocados, making it a valuable option for growers near the ocean or in exposed areas where other varieties may struggle.
Fruit typically ripens from December through February, offering dependable winter harvests and helping extend seasonal avocado availability.
With its combination of exceptional fruit size, strong production potential, coastal adaptability, and outstanding flavor, Pico Godreau is a reliable and resilient choice for growers seeking both quality and performance in Hawaiʻi orchards and home gardens.
Pinkerton
Nutty • Compact • Reliable
Pinkerton is a highly regarded Hass offspring known for its rich, nutty flavor, dependable production, and more compact growth habit compared to many larger avocado varieties. Its semi-dwarfing nature makes it an excellent choice for home gardens, smaller orchards, and growers looking for a manageable yet highly productive tree.
The fruit is typically small to medium in size, averaging around 10–14 ounces, with an excellent flesh-to-seed ratio thanks to its notably small seed. The flesh is smooth, creamy, and deeply flavorful, offering the rich buttery quality that has made Pinkerton a favorite among avocado enthusiasts worldwide.
The skin is relatively thin and remains mostly green while developing a duller appearance and slight purple blush near the shoulders as the fruit ripens.
Pinkerton harvests from approximately November through March, providing dependable winter production and helping extend the avocado season. One of its most valuable characteristics is its exceptional ability to hold mature fruit on the tree for extended periods, allowing growers greater flexibility in harvest timing while maintaining excellent eating quality.
With proper pruning and care, Pinkerton can be maintained as an attractive, productive, and easily harvestable tree that consistently delivers premium-quality fruit year after year.
Berta Rodriguez
Buttery • Resilient • Impressive Size
Berta Rodriguez is a remarkable avocado variety known for producing exceptionally large fruit with a smooth, buttery texture and rich, full flavor. Originally believed to come from the highlands of Nicaragua, this variety has adapted extremely well to Hawaiʻi’s diverse growing conditions.
One of the qualities that makes Berta Rodriguez especially valued is its versatility across different environments. It performs well both upslope and near the ocean, showing promising salinity tolerance compared to many other avocado varieties. This has made it a sought-after choice for coastal growers and home gardeners looking for a productive avocado suited to seaside conditions.
The fruit begins ripening around September through October and can continue producing into December, helping extend the avocado season with large, flavorful harvests.
The tree is known for strong production and excellent yields when given proper nutrition and care. Combined with its adaptability, fruit quality, and impressive size, Berta Rodriguez has become one of the standout locally grown avocado selections for Hawaiʻi orchards and home landscapes alike.
Improved Beardslee
Vigorous • Predictable • Flavorful
Improved Beardslee is a seedling selection of one of Hawaiʻi’s well-known heritage avocado varieties, prized for its dependable production, attractive fruit, and outstanding eating quality. This locally adapted variety has shown strong vigor and develops a dense, healthy canopy well suited to tropical growing conditions throughout the islands.
The fruit is round with textured, rough green skin that remains green even at maturity, unlike the original Beardslee. Inside, the flesh is exceptionally rich, creamy, and nutty, offering the classic buttery avocado flavor that makes Hawaiian avocados so sought after.
One of the standout characteristics of Improved Beardslee is its ability to hold fruit on the tree for an extended period without rapid quality decline. This allows for a more flexible harvest window and extended fresh picking from the tree.
Improved Beardslee typically ripens from late winter into spring, around February through May, making it an excellent choice for extending the avocado season well beyond many fall and early winter varieties.
With proper care and nutrition, this variety is known to be productive, reliable, and highly rewarding for both home growers and orchard plantings throughout Hawaiʻi.
Vigorous • Predictable • Flavorful
Improved Green Gold
Improved Green Gold
Vigorous • Predictable • Flavorful
Improved Green Gold is a standout late-season avocado that ripens from approximately November through January, offering rich, buttery fruit during the cooler months when quality avocados are especially appreciated.
This variety is prized for its exceptional meat-to-seed ratio, delivering thick, uniform flesh with a rich fatty, nutty flavor that avocado lovers immediately recognize. The texture is smooth and consistent throughout the fruit, making it excellent for fresh eating, sandwiches, poke, guacamole, and more.
One characteristic that truly sets Improved Green Gold apart is its ability to handle bruising and transport better than many softer avocado varieties, helping maintain quality after harvest.
The tree itself is vigorous and productive. If left unmanaged and unpruned, it can become a large tree exceeding 25 feet in height. However, with proper pruning and training, it can easily be maintained as a manageable and harvestable tree around 15 feet tall. Its naturally wide growth habit responds especially well to structural training and orchard-style management.
Under good nutrition and care, Improved Green Gold is known to be a heavy and dependable annual producer, making it an excellent choice for both home growers and small orchards throughout Hawaiʻi.
Sharwil
Buttery • Classic • Dependable
Widely regarded as Hawaiʻi's premier avocado, Sharwil has earned its reputation through exceptional flavor, outstanding texture, and reliable performance. A hybrid of Mexican and Guatemalan parentage, it produces medium-sized (8–16 oz), pear-shaped fruit with a small seed and an abundance of rich, creamy flesh. Its exceptionally high oil content gives Sharwil the buttery, nutty flavor that has made it the benchmark by which many other avocados are judged.
Sharwil ripens from late fall through early spring, making it an excellent winter producer when few other varieties are in season. Unlike Hass, the fruit remains green when ripe, softening gently as it reaches peak eating quality. The skin peels easily, revealing smooth, golden-green flesh that is perfect for fresh eating, toast, salads, sushi, dips, or simply enjoyed with a spoon.
The tree is vigorous with a spreading canopy and performs exceptionally well throughout Hawaiʻi. It is a consistent producer under good management and has become the most widely planted commercial avocado variety in the islands due to its outstanding fruit quality and dependable yields. For home growers, Sharwil offers the rare combination of premium flavor, manageable fruit size, and a long harvest season.
If you're planting just one avocado tree, Sharwil remains one of the finest choices available—a true Hawaiian classic that has delighted growers and avocado lovers for generations.
Compact • Productive • Convenient
Wurtz a.k.a. 'Little Cado'
Known affectionately as Little Cado, Wurtz is the premier avocado variety for small yards, urban gardens, and container growing. Naturally compact and semi-dwarf, it reaches only about 10–15 feet with minimal pruning, making it an excellent choice for homeowners who want a productive avocado tree without sacrificing valuable space.
Despite its smaller stature, Wurtz consistently produces an abundance of medium-sized, pear-shaped fruit with smooth green skin and creamy, flavorful flesh. The fruit has a rich, buttery texture with a mild nutty flavor that makes it perfect for fresh eating, sandwiches, salads, guacamole, and everyday use in the kitchen.
One of Wurtz's greatest strengths is its early productivity. Trees often begin bearing at a younger age than many standard avocado varieties and can produce impressive harvests relative to their size. Their manageable growth habit also makes pruning, harvesting, and general maintenance much easier for home gardeners.
Wurtz performs well throughout Hawaiʻi and is especially well suited for growers looking to maximize production in a limited space. Whether planted beside the home, in a small orchard, or even in a large container, it delivers dependable harvests while remaining easy to care for.
For gardeners who thought they didn't have room for an avocado tree, Wurtz proves that exceptional fruit can come from a surprisingly compact package.
All trees are grown in #1 tree pots (12" x 4" x 4") and priced at $60 each.
Please refer to the Tips page for guidance on caring for your tree(s) after purchase.
We also accept custom pre-orders for specific varieties. Please note that the turnaround time is typically 2–3 months, depending on rootstock readiness. Once grafted, trees require about 5 weeks to heal and an additional 4–6 weeks of growth before they are strong and ready for sale.
To order, please fill out the form below with your chosen varieties and quantity.