A Miami-based online fruit seller is gaining international attention thanks to its elongated foot-long avocados.
Miami Fruit, a website that sells and ships locally grown tropical fruit to buyers across the United States, has seen its “long neck” avocados going viral, with news outlets like NBC’s Today, Fox News and others featuring the unusual variety of avocado, also known as “Persea americana Russell,” according to reports.
“This fruit grows in the Caribbean Islands and small pockets of South Florida from the Keys to Miami,” Miami Fruit explains on its website. “It is non gmo and not commercially grown.”
Miami Fruit sells different-sized boxes of the avocado. (The fruit isn’t currently available, but Miami Fruit says there’s a way to get on the waiting list for the next harvest.) A small box containing about 3 to 6 pounds of the fruit is $47, while the largest size, a bulk box containing about 35 to 45 pounds of the avocado, is priced at $197.
“Our long neck avocados are thick, creamy, savory and slightly sweet,” Edelle Schlegel, who co-founded Miami Fruit with her partner Rane Roatta, told Today.
