To borrow shamelessly from Benjamin Franklin, guacamole is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. The Agricultural and Natural Resources people at the University of California-Riverside would seem to agree. In this Web site devoted solely to the lovely avocado, readers can learn all about the history and horticulture of this subtropical fruit (that's right -- fruit). Features include time-lapsed videos of avocado flowering, another video on how to correctly prune a small avocado tree, a "short" history of how the avocado got its name (actually a rather complicated etymological journey), basic horticultural information, and more.