Editing Avocado (section)

====B cultivars====

* [[Fuerte avocado|'Fuerte']]: Commercialized in the U.S. from budwood imported from [[Atlixco]], Mexico in 1911,<ref name="CAS25-26">{{cite web |last1=Popenoe |first1=Wilson |title=California Avocado Society 1925-26 Yearbook: The Parent Fuerte Tree at Atlixco, Mexico |url=https://www.avocadosource.com/cas_yearbooks/cas_11_1925-26/cas_1925-26_pg_24-34.pdf |access-date=1 March 2023}}</ref> Fuerte was the dominant commercial variety in the U.S. for the first half of the 20th century.<ref name="cooksInfo">{{cite web |title=Fuerte Avocado |url=https://www.cooksinfo.com/fuerte-avocado |website=Cook's Info |access-date=28 February 2023}}</ref>
* 'Sharwil': Developed by James Cockburn Wilson (died 1990) with Frank Victor Sharpe in [[Tamborine Mountain]], Queensland, Australia, in the 1950s, a [[portmanteau]] of Sharpe and Wilson.<ref>{{cite web |title=Talking avocados |url=https://avocado.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/TalkingAvocadosWinter1990Vol1No2scanned_001.pdf |website=Avocados Australia |publisher=Australian Avocado Growers' Federation |access-date=16 January 2022 |date=June 1990}}</ref> Wilson also developed the Willard variety (Wilson and Hazzard), imported the Reed variety into Australia, and developed the Shepard variety. Sharpe {{post-nominals|OBE}} was later awarded a [[Order of St Michael and St George|CMG]] in [[1972 Birthday Honours#Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) 2|1972]] for services to the avocado industry. The variety originated in Guatemala.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article214554727 |title=Research plants stolen |newspaper=Hamersley News |volume=X |issue=17 |location=Western Australia |date=8 September 1977 |access-date=16 January 2022 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>