The bignay is native and common in the wild from the lower Himalayas and india, and Southeast Asia. In Indonesia and the Philippines, the leaves are eaten raw or stewed with rice. The timber of all its species are highly valued.
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The bignay is native and common in the wild from the lower Himalayas and india, and Southeast Asia. In Indonesia and the Philippines, the leaves are eaten raw or stewed with rice. The timber of all its species are highly valued.
The bignay is native and common in the wild from the lower Himalayas and india, and Southeast Asia. In Indonesia and the Philippines, the leaves are eaten raw or stewed with rice. The timber of all its species are highly valued.
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The bignay is native and common in the wild from the lower Himalayas and india, and Southeast Asia. In Indonesia and the Philippines, the leaves are eaten raw or stewed with rice. The timber of all its species are highly valued.
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ROSIDS Family Euphorbiaceae
Family Fabaceae
Pterocarpusindicus Smooth Narra
Antidesma bunius Bignay The tree can be shrubby and its branches are widely spread. The bignay is native and common in the wild from the lower Himalayas and India, and Southeast Asia. In Indonesia and the Philippines, the leaves are eaten raw or stewed with rice.
It is a big tree that usually growing to 33 m in heigh and 2 m diameter bearing many long branches . The timber of all its species are highly valued.
Family Malvavaceae
Family Sapindaceae
Hibiscus sinensis Chinese rose, Gumamela(Tagalog)
Gumamela is an erect, glaborous shrub that grows from 1 to 4 meters high. Its flowers are solitary and very large usually in brilliant hues of red, orange, and purplis-reds. It has been used widely in medicine because of several biologic activies including wound healing, spasmogenic, and hypotensive activity.
Pometia pinnata Taun, Island Lychee, Malugai(Tagalog)
Malugai comprises several hardwood species occurring in various parts of South-East Asia and the Pacific. It has pinnate leaves and dark red fruits up to 4 cm long, with three seeds each surrounded by a fleshy aril somewhat like a lychee. It is used in general building construction and decorative uses.
Family Simaroubaceae
Quassia amara Corales
Corales is a shrub with alternately arranged compound leaves. It is native to Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Brasilia and Guyana. Its bark extracts are used as an insecticide and used to flavor soft drinks, aperitifs, and bitters.
ASTERIDS
Family Acanthaceae Family Acanthaceae
Candle Top Plant/ Golden Shrimp Plant Pachystachys lutea Asystasia gangetica Zamboangenita This is an attractive, fastgrowing, spreading, herbaceous ground cover that grows from 300mm to 600mm in height. It produces a cream-coloured flower with tessellated purple markings on the palate in spring and summer. Flowers are produced over a long period and are followed by capsules with brown seeds. Native to Peru, lollypop plant (also called golden candle or shrimp plant) is a tropical evergreen shrub or subshrub that grows 2-6 tall in its native habitat.The flower of this plant blooms in white or
bright yellow color. It The flower is white with yellow bracts. It is a broad leaf evergreen and its texture is smooth. It grows between 1 and 1.5 feet. Lance-shaped to elliptic medium green leaves (to 6 long) are heavily veined.
Family Acanthaceae
Family Apocynaceae
Pseuderanthemumreticulatum Yellow Morado It is an evergreen perennial, subshrubs and shrubs from woodland habitats in tropical regions worldwide. It is the host plant of Autumn Lead butterfly
Thevetia peruviana Yellow Orleander
Yellow oleander is a tropical evergreen shrub or small tree. It will grow to 20-30 tall in its native habitat. Flowers bloom from summer to fall. Plant stems exude a milky sap when. Seeds (1 diameter) are sometimes carried as talismen in the West Indies, where the shrubs are also commonly called lucky nut. Genus name honors 16th century French Franciscan monk Andre Thevet who accompanied a French expedition to Brazil in the 1550s. Synonymous with T. neriifolia.
Family Balsaminaceae
Family Bixaceae
Impatiens walleriana Patience plant
This subshrubby perennial with light green to red-flushed stems has slightly toothed, scalloped, light to bronze-green or redflushed leaves to 5 inches long. The showy, flat flowers bloom in white or shades of orange, pink, red, purple, violet, lavender-blue, and bicolors.
Bixaorellana Achuete It is a shrub or a bushy tree which ranges from 3 to 10 meters in height. Its glossy, ovate leaves are evergreen with reddish veins. This plant has medicinal and food uses.
Family Rutaceae
Family Rutaceae
Citrus microcarpa Kalamansi
Kalamansi is a smooth and slightly spiny plant, growing to a height of 3 to 5 meters. The skin or peel is green to yellowish green or yellow, loosely adhering to the flesh. The flesh contains a few light orange seeds.
Lunasia amaria Lunas
Lunas is an erect shrub, growing to a height of 3 metersMale are female flowers are covered with lepidote scales, small and yellow, occurring in considerable numbers in axillary inflorescences which are shorter than the petioles. sutures.
Family Rutaceae
Family Rutaceae
Triphasiatrifolia Limeberry (English) and Limoncito (Filipino) It is an evergreen shrub growing to 3 m. It has bisexual flowers. It prefers dry or moist soil.
Murraya paniculata Kamuning
Orange Jessamine or kamuning, is a tropical, evergreen plant bearing small, white, scented flowers, which is grown as an ornamental tree or hedge. Murraya is closely related to Citrus, and bears small orange to red fruit resembling kumquats, though some cultivars do not set fruit.
