Carmen

Genetics	Sport of Hass (mostly Guatemalan)
Type	A
Fruit Size	6 - 12oz
Harvest	All year

From ViverosBrokaw.com:

"It is a new variety of Hass type with higher productivity, precocity and flavor. Our first tests show a productivity between 15 and 50% higher than Hass and an earlier maturity (between 1 and 3 weeks depending on the area). The fruit is apparently identical to the Hass, pear-shaped dark green color on the tree, turns purple to black when ripe. The skin is medium to thick, with rough texture. Small to medium size (140-400 gr.). The size of the seed is medium with an advantage of the pulp of 66-70%. The pulp is of excellent quality with a rich nutty flavor surpassing the Hass in texture and flavor."

Origin story from LaurieMeadows.info:

"Carmen-Hass was selected (and later patented) from a Mexican Hass orchard in Michoaca because of its consistent 'off season' cropping. In some years, some Hass trees in avocado orchards in Mexico have flowers outside the normal spring season. This late summer flowering matures its fruit in early winter, when the normal crop is in short supply in the markets. This burst of flowering is called the 'Loca' crop in Spanish. Loca means 'crazy'. Crazy because it is not the normal time of year for Hass to be cropping, and crazy because there is often a very good apparent fruit set, only for the pin-head sized fruitlets to fall off. As a result, there is rarely much of an 'off-bloom' crop. The fruitlets possibly fall because temperatures are not warm enough for long enough to retain the embryonic fruit. It is only in those years of unseasonable warmth that the loca crop produces well. 'Off season' flowering is not confined to Mexico. It is a well known phenomenon in some 'normal' Hass trees in some years in New Zealand. Some trees have a very modest and protracted flowering from march onwards, in some years right through winter to 'join up' to the normal spring flowering. Fruit set is usually either very light or zero, and the winter part of this long flowering phase generally don't set any fruit at all, again, presumably because it is too cold. As in the Mexican experience, in some years initial set of 'off-season' flowers looks promising, but either all, or almost all, fall off. However, in the late 1980's a tree in a Mexican commercial Hass orchard was noticed which consistently bore 'out of season' flowers. It not only had a loca crop every year, it regularly held the fruitlets to full maturity, producing good quality fruit at a time of year when the main Hass crop had yet to start. The commercial value was obvious, especially as high quality Carmen fruit are available in june- September in Mexico - a time when there are few good quality avocados available in the key USA export market. Realizing its commercial importance, the discoverer, Carlos Mendez Vega, propagated and multiplied the tree. He supplied trees to surrounding orchards, and he also top-worked some of his own commercial Hass trees with this unusual form of Hass. The pattern of regular out of season bloom and fruiting continued. Over the next decade or so, enough blocks of trees were established that the fruit began to be recognized as a distinct form of Hass, and it became known as the 'Mendez type'. Ultimately, the Mendez Hass was imported into USA, re-named, and patented. Hass-Carmen™ is patented in New Zealand, and at 2012 is being made available solely to growers. As at 2018, around 1,500 trees are being trialled around New Zealand, according to the NZ Avocado Industry Council The name 'Hass Carmen® 'is a registered trademark, as well as being the strictly correct name for the variety. Inevitably it will end up being colloquially referred to as as 'Carmen-Hass', or perhaps simply 'Carmen'."