Enhance your garden with these rare exotic Black Gem avocado cuttings. This pack includes 3 scion units of fresh and rare fruit trees that grow well both indoors and outdoors. The growth habit of these trees is clumping, and they have a medium growth rate.

The broadleaf foliage of these trees is not only aesthetically pleasing but also air-purifying. These trees are cold-resistant and organic, making them perfect for any room in your home. With a height of 4.5 inches and a weight of 5 ounces, these wax-dipped cuttings are perfect for planting in any soil type, including clay, sand, saline, silt, chalk, loam, and peat.

Fruit collectors have been embarking on exotic tree-hunting safaris for centuries. The first leg of the famously doomed 1787 voyage of Lt. William Bligh on the soon-to-be-mutinied HMS Bounty was, in fact, a mission to collect breadfruit saplings in Tahiti. Bligh’s assignment was to transport the young trees from the Pacific to the Caribbean and thereby introduce a new source of food to the islands’ slave camps. A century later, the U.S. Department of Agriculture sent several explorers to Turkey, Greece, Italy, and North Africa in search of desirable fig varieties, with the hope (ultimately successful) of launching a profitable industry in the similar climes of California. At about the same time, David Fairchild, for whom the Fairchild Garden is named, was conducting his own exotic plant exploration for the United States government. Fairchild ultimately helped introduce pistachios, nectarines, Chinese soy beans, and mangos to Americans.

Today, scientists from many nations continue the hunt for new or exotic plants. Carrying GPS locators and traveling in jeeps, they pursue wild seedlings or unknown cultivated varieties throughout Asia, equatorial Africa, and Latin America and bring their finds back for propagation in botanical collections. The Fairchild Garden is just one facility of its sort. A vast apple collection in upstate New York, managed jointly by Cornell University and the USDA, includes some 8,000 accessions. Near Sacramento, Calif., the USDA and UC-Davis co-manage an orchard containing thousands of grape, walnut, almond, kiwi, persimmon, and fig varieties, among others. And in Corvallis, Ore., another government-university collection includes blackberries, raspberries, hazelnuts, and hops. The United States isn’t the only player in this game, either: The Greek government, for example, keeps a huge assortment of olive trees near Kalamata.