Hawaii Woman Might Have Found The World's Biggest Avocado

KAILUA-KONA, HI — Pamela Wang of the Big Island on Sunday came upon something most people don't see everyday.While on a walk, she spotted a 5-pound avocado, West Hawaii Today reported.

"I see avocados every day and I pick up avocados every day, but this one it was hard to miss," Wang said. "It was as big as my head."

She's now waiting to see if the fruit will be declared the largest by Guinness World Records.

Her first move after finding the avocado was to go to the Pure Kona Green Market, where she met up with friends and showed the enormous fruit to community members.

Wang's friends began making inquiries online, uncovering information that indicated that the avocado might just be the largest on record.

Wang submitted an application to Guinness and expects to here back within two months. She had Ken Love, executive director of Hawaii Tropical Fruit Growers, witness the avocado's weighing. Guinness requires an expert to be present.

"I've seen (avocados) longer and I've seen them fatter, but not both," said Love, who verified the fruit's weight at 5.23 pounds. "I think people have other ones that they don't weigh, but I think this one, it was way up there."

Elizabeth Montoya, assistant public relations manager with Guinness World Records America, Inc., wrote that the company doesn't have a category for the largest avocado. It does, however, have one for the heaviest.
Montoya said that in January 2009, Guinness verified an avocado submitted by Gabriel Ramirez Nahim of Caracas, Venezuela, which weighed in at 4 pounds, 13.2 ounces.

Wang said she found the avocado under a tree that hangs over a street. Anything overhanging or dropped outside of a private property line is free for anyone to claim.

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (not the avocado in question)