date:Aug 13, 2019
asingly popular fruit.
The avocado belongs to a relatively small group of plants called magnoliids, which diverged from other flowering plant species about 150 million years ago.
The new research supports but does not prove the hypothesis that magnoliids, as a group, predate the two dominant lineages of flowering plants alive today, the eudicots and monocots.
If this is right, it would not mean that avocados themselves are older than eudicots and monocots, but that avocados belong to a here