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The original was posted on /r/australia by /u/Vegetable-Place4463 on 2024-09-07 09:23:15+00:00.

A plant producing a supersized new Australian avocado variety — four times the size of a store-bought fruit — is tipped to be a sell-out, ahead of its first release to retail nurseries and home gardeners.

Lorna Spackman married into a pioneering citrus farming family on the Sunshine Coast.

But the 81-year-old never expected to create a legacy with Jala, a prolific new avocado variety producing enormous slow-oxidising fruit.

Avocados from grafted Jala trees recently weighed in at an average of 1–1.2 kilograms, while fruit from the first trial in Ms Spackman’s orchard averaged between 700 and 900 grams.