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Lansium domesticum
Lanzones
Lanzones
Grows up to a height of 30m with trunk 75cm in diameter It prefers soils with good drainage and water retention, rich in organic matter and slightly acidic. The average yield per hectare is 2.5 tons in the Philippines
Artocarpus odoratissimus
Joey Oak
Marang
It has a strong scent. The scent reminds some of the Durian but is not so intense. Those ripened on the tree turn a more brownish color and will eventually fall to the ground and easily split open. It is round to oblong, 15-20 cm long and 13 cm broad, and weighing about I kg.
Artocarpus heterophyllus
Jackfruit
Langka
It is well suited to tropical lowlands, and its fruit is the largest tree-borne fruit. The word jackfruit comes from Portugese jaca, which in turn, is derived from the Malayalam language team,chakka.
Psidium guajava
Guavas
Bayabas
Plants in the Myrtle family The term guava appears to derive from Arawak guayabo guava tree, via the Spanish guayaba The plant is somewhat hairy reaches a height of 8 inches. Ripe fruit is eatenas vegetable and used as seasoning for sinigang and also used in themanufacture of jellies. Leaves in the form of decoction for washing ulcersand wounds and also antidiarrhetic
Averrhoa carambola L.
Balimbing
Balimbing
Small sized tree growing to a height of 6 meters or less. The leaves arepinnate about 15 cm. long. The fruit is fleshy, acid green or greenish yellowand edible. The fruit is laxative, and is also given in fevers.
Sugar Apple
Atis
the Atis is one fruit you can easily grow even if you have only a square meter of soil. A tree bears fruits about three times a year: in the summer, during rainy season and towards Christmas. The best batch of fruits, those with thicker and sweeter flesh, comes out in the summer.
Cocus nucifera
Coconut
Niyog, Butong (Visayan)
Like other fruits, it has three layers: exocarp, mesocarp, and endocarp. The exocarp and mesocarp make up the "husk" of the coconut. The oil and milk derived from it are commonly used in cooking and frying; coconut oil is also widely used in soaps and cosmetics. The clear liquid coconut water within is a refreshing drink. The husks and leaves can be used as material to make a variety of products for furnishing and decorating. It also has cultural and religious significance in many societies that use it.
Annona reticulate L.
Custard Apple
Anonas
Leaves are oblong to oblong - lanceolate, flowers are greenish yellow,fragrant, the fruit is large and heartshaped and brownish yellow. Freshleaves are used as topicals and are applied to the stomachs of childrensuffering from indigestion.
Perseea americana
Avocado
Alligator Pear
Medium sized tree reaching a height of 10 meters. Leaves are alternate,oblong to oval or obovate. Flowers are small borne in naked, panicled, hairycymes. Fruit is large, fleshy, elongated and of various shapes. The pulp iscredited with the suppuration of wounds, and have an aphrodisiac properties.
Antidesma buiuus
Bignay Bignai,Dokodoko,Bugnay
Small, smooth and delicious tree. The fruit is fleshy, red, acid, and edible. Excellent in making jam and wine.
Descriptions: An erect tree reaching a height of 20 meters. Fruit is round, edible, and isgood for making jams and pies. The roots and their decoction are giveninternally to women after childbirth. The fruit is prescribed fordysmenorrhoea
Theobrama cacao
Cacao Kakaw, Chocolate tree
Cultivated for its seeds which are used in the manufacture of cacao, chocolate, cacao butter. Cacao butter is used in the manufacture of confections, toilet preparations and cosmetic ointments or coating pills and preparing suppositories.
Chrysophyllum caimito
Star Apple Caimito,Cainito
Cultivated for its edible fruit and as an ornament. Decoction of the bark isgiven for dysentery, latex is used as a resolutive in abscesses and fruit is usedin treatment of diabetes mellitus.
Manilkara sapota
Chico
Chico,Sapodilla
Much branched tree reaching a height of 8 meters. The fruit brown, fleshy, ovoid or somewhat rounded. The flesh is brown, soft, slightly gritty and sweet. Bark is used for tanning sails and for making fishing tackle. Milky juice of the bark is used in the manufacture of chewing gum.
Citrus aurantifolia
Key Lime
Dayap
The local lemon or lime. Among traditional cooks it is the critical flavoring for leche flan and macapuno because it keeps the rich desserts from being too sweet.
Syzygium cinnamomeum
Corky Debbar Tree Duhat,Kalai,Baling-manok,Munat
Duhat juice is considered as tasty as grape juice, and used in the manufacture of red wine. Decoction of the bark is given internally in dysentery, ripe fruit is an efficient remedy for diabetes mellitus.
Cultivated for its very highly prized fruits. Durian fruit as tonic, root decoction for fever and their juice into a preparation for bathing the head of the fever patient.
Annona muricata L.
Soursop Guyabano,Babana
Small tree, 5 to 7 meters in height. The fruit usually eaten raw when ripe Juicy fruit makes a delicious ice cream. Unripe fruit, seeds and juice of the fruit are used in treating dysentery.
Leaves, flowers, fruit, peel of the fruits and the volatile oil are official in many pharmacopeias.
Pithecellobium dulce
Sweet Tamarind Kamachile,kamanchilis
This tree is 5 to 18 meters high with ultimate branches. The bark is used for tanning, the seed is edible, whitish and sweet when the fruit is ripe. The root bark is good for dysentery, leaves with salt, cure indigestion and also produce abortion.
Averrhoa balimbi L.
Bilimbi tree Kamias,Iba
Fruit contains potassium oxalate & is used to remove stains from clothing and also for washing hands. It is much used as seasoning and is made into sweets, including jam and used in making pickles.
Spondias pinnata
Wild Mango Libas,Lubas,Lano
Cultivated on account of its ornamental, edible, red fruit & its fragrant, white flowers. Aromatic bath salts in the Phils. Are made from the leaves of this plant.
Syzygium samarangens
Wax Apple
Makopa
The pink and bright red bells are so attractive and the trees produce so much fruit but, alas, there are so few takers.
Mangifera indica
Mango
Mangga
Root - diuretic; bark & seeds mastringent; leaves for tea & resin cure for aphthoes
A decoction of the bark & leaves is employed as an effective astringent in dysentery &diarrhea & is used in bowel trouble of all kinds.
Cannarium ovatum
Pilinut Pili,Liputi
The roots contain 7.8 % tannin, and gives satisfactory leather which is yellowish tan. The seed has a fixed oil. Oleoresin is used as stimulant, a rubefacient and antirheumatic when applied externally.
Nephelium lappaceum
Rambutan Fruit is oblong, red or yellow with thick coarse wavy hairs or soft spines. Roots in decoction for treating fevers, leaves for poulticing and the bark as an astringent for diseases of the tongue.
Artocarpus communis
Breadfruit
Rimas
Very closely related to Kamansi (Seeded Breadfruit). Native of the Pacific Islands.
Tamarindus indica
Tamarind
Sampalok The tree is cultivated for its many uses. Leaves are used in dyeing. Tamarind pulp obtained citric acid, 9.40, tartaric acid 1.55, malic acid 0.45, bitartrate of potash 3.25, sugar 12.5, gum 4.7 vegetable jelly 6.25, parenchyma 34.35, and water 27.55. Seeds contain tannin, fixed oil, and insoluble matter. and bark of old trees contains 7% tannin.
Citrus maxima
Pomelo
Lukban, Bu-ungon, Suha, Kabugaw
The largest of the citrus fruits, with a thick yellow skin and bitter pulp that resembles grapefruit in flavor.
Diospyros blancoi
Velvet apple
Kamagong
Its edible fruit has a skin covered in a fine, velvety fur which is usually reddish-brown, and soft, creamy, pink flesh, with a taste and aroma comparable to fruit cream cheese (the aroma of the fruit itself, however, is unpleasant, comparable to rotten cheese or cat feces.
Musa sapientum
Banana
Saging
A long curved fruit that grows in clusters and has soft pulpy flesh and yellow skin when ripe. The tropical and subtropical treelike plant that bears this fruit. It has very large leaves and resembles a palm, but lacks a woody trunk
Sandoricum koetjape
Red Santol Santol,Santor
It is also called sour apple or cotton fruit. It is commonly cultivated throughout these regions and the fruits are seasonally abundant in the local markets.
Carica papaya
Papaya Papaya,Kapaya
This one versatile tropical fruit. When ripe, it is eaten fresh or mixed with milk and sugar to make a papaya shake. When still raw, it is cooked with chicken to make into tinola, or shredded and flavored with vinegar and spices to make into achara.
Chrysophyllum cainito
Star Apple
Kaimito
The fruits are delicious as a fresh dessert fruit; it is sweet and best served chilled. Infusions of the leaves have been used against diabetes and particular rheumatism. The fruit has anti-oxidant properties.
Calamus manillensis
Ratttan Fruit of Dragons Blood
Yantok
The fruit of some rattans exudes a red resin called dragon's blood. This resin was thought to have medicinal properties in antiquity and was also used as a dye for violins, among other things
Bactris gasipaes
Peach Palm Cachipay
The fruit is a drupe with edible pulp surrounding the single seed, 46 cm long and 35 cm broad. The rind (epicarp) of the fruit can be red, yellow, or orange when the fruit is ripe, depending on the variety of the palm.
Garcinia binucao
Batwan
The taste is sour but not acidic, a tartness that promotes saliva in the mouth without impacting on the stomach, the way vinegar or even kalamansi often does. This is the kind of sourness only batwan can deliver. An important part of the souring arsenal of cooks in Negros Occidental and some parts of Panay, batwan is actually found in abundance in Bohol and Mindanao
Citrus aurantium
Sweet Orange Dalandan,Tamamisan The local orange. Or what's left of it. In the '60s, we had a variety of local oranges that were big, juicy and sweet. The ladu variety, which was common then, had a deep green and orange peeling that had the shape of, but was much bigger than, the ponkan.
Citrofortunella microcarpa
Seeded Breadfruit
Kalamansi
Very popular as a souring agent is the kalamansi. This little green lime, which is indigenous to the country, plays a giant role in Philippine cuisine.
Artocarpus camansi
Breadfruit Kamansi,Kamongsi
His fruit is being sold in a vegetable cart with squash and string beans. They looked like underdeveloped langka or jackfruit, little round langka with the same green spiny cover.
Cocos nucifera
Macapuno The macapuno is a mutant of the coconut. Developed macapuno trees that yield 80 per cent macapuno fruits. The trees grow in abundance in Albay where the Authority's research center is.
Garcinia mangostana
Mangosteen Mangostan,Manggis
This fruit often regarded as one of the four most delicious fruits in the world along with the mango, pineapple, and cherimoya. Let me add that the mangosteen is also such an elegantly designed fruit.
Pouteria campechiana
Egg Fruit Tiesa,Boracho This heart-shaped, orange-yellow summer fruit is said to be one of the best sources of vitamin A. Eating tiessa is like eating boiled kamote (sweet potatoes), given its fibrous, sticky texture and thick flesh. But it has a cloying sweetness that makes one fruit too much for just one person to finish.
Spondias purpurea
Hog Plum Sineguelas,Saguelas Many people always associated sineguelas with the spookiness of its tree before it bore fruit. The sineguelas tree sheds off all its leaves before it flowers, and the fruits appear just in time for the summer. Wait for the fruits to turn red because that's when they're sweet and juicy. Nutritionists tell us that the sineguelas is loaded with Vitamin C.