Bui. 743, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
PLATE XI 
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 stiffer 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.) 
