Persea americana Mill. (code: PERSAMER)

zaboka (ht), avocado (en)

• Family: Lauraceae
• Wikipedia: LINK
• Uses: food
• Morphology: Leaves alternate. Tending towards obovate, sometime reddish when young. Very generic tropical tree seedling leaves.
• Morphotype notes: Karen: "Seedlings requires a lot of water the first 3 years". Likely exotic in Haiti: first humans to Haiti ~1,200 AD, well after avocado was domesticated.