What's amiss with my avocado?

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

It looked fine from the outside. But cutting into it was difficult and the thin end was so full of these things that it couldn't be eaten. Even eating the blunt end was a challenge to avoid the 'crunchie bits'. It tasted fine.

I washed the skin on the inside carefully to show some of the problem.

Avocado Problems

• SatNavSaysStraightOn
• 16 Oct 2019

Avocado Problems

• SatNavSaysStraightOn
• 16 Oct 2019

Washed skin of avocado reveals some of the extent of the problem

• SatNavSaysStraightOn
• 16 Oct 2019

 

[TastyReuben]

I found this on the California Avocados website:

"The “bumps” (not the pebbly bumps that are part of the Hass Avocado’s external skin) found on your avocado, or the occurrence of hard, corky or woody “pebbles” in the flesh of Hass avocados is rare. Avocados naturally have a defense mechanism that allows a wound to the skin to be “corked off” resulting in pebble-like nodes in the pulp. The bumps are not harmful."

Sounds like an avocado that's seen some rough times.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Sounds like an avocado that's seen some rough times.

and thank you. I had cut into one, but their size made it difficult to photograph without specialist equipment that I no longer have. There was a greenish hard layer surrounding a darker bark line node for want of a better expression. I had assumed that they were not harmful, but it is not the first time (or even the second time for that matter) that I have found them inside but this one was particularly bad, though tasted delicious and was spot on for ripeness!