Persea americana (Avocado) [photo taken 27 June 2001] I have had my avocadoes since some time in 1999 when my roommate was making guacamole. I sprouted five, each quickly shooting up to two feet tall, but a run in with a plant disease thinned the group to two. The change in climate when I moved sent both of these into shock, but each sprouted a second shoot from its base. Neither has reached its previous height but both are flourishing. There is a lush grass growing in the pot, perhaps of the bottle brush variety.