Bui. 743, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



PLATE XII. 



A Coyo Tree during the Flowering Period. 



Like the Guatemalan avocado, the coyo sheds most of its foliage during the flowering period. The 

 tree here shown is in full bloom and at the same time is making new growth, which will soon 

 result in an abundance of leaves. In size and general habit of growth the coyo strongly resembles 

 the avocado. The branchlets, however, are stouter and stifier than those of the avocado, and the 

 leaves and new growths are covered with a heavy reddish down or pubescence. (Photographed 

 near Tactic, Alta Vera Paz, Guatemala, March 30, 1917; P17168FS.) 



