COMMON NAME

SCIENTIFIC NAME

DESCRIPTION / USES

1. Anonas

Leaves are oblong to oblong lanceolate, flowers are greenish yellow, fragrant, the fruit is large and heart-shaped and brownish yellow. Fresh Annona reticulate L. leaves are used as topicals and are applied to the stomachs of children suffering from indigestion. Medium sized tree reaching a height of 10 meters. Leaves are alternate, oblong to oval or obovate. Flowers are small borne in naked, panicled, hairy Perseea americana cymes. Fruit is large, fleshy, elongated and of various shapes. The pulp is credited with the suppuration of wounds, and have an aphrodisiac properties. Averrhoa carambola L. Small sized tree growing to a height of 6 meters or less. The leaves are pinnate about 15 cm. long. The fruit is fleshy, acid green or greenish yellow and edible. The fruit is laxative, and is also given in fevers. The plant is somewhat hairy reaches a height of 8 inches. Ripe fruit is eaten as vegetable and used as seasoning for sinigang and also used in the manufacture of jellies. Leaves in the form of decoction for washing ulcers and wounds and also antidiarrhetic. Small, smooth and dioecious tree. The fruit is fleshy, red, acid, and edible. Excellent in making jam and wine. An erect tree reaching a height of 20 meters. Fruit is round, edible, and is good for making jams and pies. The roots and their decoction are given internally to women after childbirth. The fruit is prescribed for dysmenorrhoea 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. Cultivated for its edible fruit and as an ornament. Decoction of the bark is given for dysentery, latex is used as a resolutive in abscesses and fruit is used in treatment of diabetes mellitus.

2. Avocado

3. Balimbing

4. Bayabas

Psidium guajava

5. Bignai

Antidesma buiuus Flacourtia rykum Zoll. & Mor.

6. Bitongol

7. Cacao

Theobrama cacao

8. Caimito

Chrysophyllum caimito

9. Chico

Manilkara sapota

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.
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.

10. Dayap (Key Lime) 11. Duhat

Citrus aurantifolia

Syzygium cinnamomeum Durio zibethinus Murr. (Bomb.)

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.

12. Durian

13. Guyabano

Small tree, 5 to 7 meters in height. The fruit usually eaten raw when ripe Annona muricata L. Juicy fruit makes a delicious ice cream. Unripe fruit, seeds and juice of the fruit are used in treating dysentery. Citrum aurantium L. Leaves, flowers, fruit, peel of the fruits and the volatile oil are official in (tight skinned many pharmacopeias. orange) Pithecellobium dulce 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.

14. Kahel

15. Kamachile

16. Kamias 17. Katmon 18. Lansones

Fruit contains potassium oxalate & is used to remove stains from clothing Averrhoa balimbi L. and also for washing hands. It is much used as seasoning and is made into sweets, including jam and used in making pickles. Dillenia Acid juice of the fruit when mixed with sugar is used as cough cure. It is philippinensis Rolf. employed for cleansing the hair. A great favorite with the Filipinos. Fruit is whitish-yellow and occurs in Lansium bunches which resemble those of grapes except that they occur on a single domesticum Correa stem instead of a branched stem.

19. Libas 20. Limonsito

Spondias pinnata Triphasia trifolia (Burm.)

Syzygium samarangens

Leaves & fruits sour & used in stews 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.
The pink and bright red bells are so attractive and the trees produce so much fruit but, alas, there are so few takers.

21. Makopa (Wax Apple)

22. Mangga 23. Mansanitas

Mangifera indica

Root - diuretic; bark & seeds mastringent; leaves for tea & resin cure for aphthoes

Ziciphus mauritiana A decoction of the bark & leaves is employed as an effective astringent in Lam. dysentery &diarrhea & is used in bowel trouble of all kinds. Litsea perrottetli The fruit is round, about 8 millimeters or less in diameter. The seeds contains slightly aromatic, tallow like oil. Roots and leaves are used for poulticing sprains and bruises. Seeds are pounded and applied to boils. The young fruits are eaten as vegetable. Ash of the leaves after burning applied on wounds and ulcers as a dried or cicatrizant. Leaves for skin diseases root decoction for diarrhea, milky juice for swelling and snake bite.
A feather-leaved palm extensively cultivated in tropical regions for food, beverages, oil, thatching, fiber, utensils, or ornament.

24. Marang (Joey Oak)

25. Nangka 26. Buko (Coconut palm) 27. Paho 28. Pahutan 29. Pili 30. Rambutan

Artocarpus heterophylla Lam. Cocus nucifera Mangifera philippensis Mukh. (Anac.)

Roots are diuretic, bark and seeds are astringent

Mangifera altissima Same as in mango Blanco The roots contain 7.8 % tannin, and gives satisfactory leather which is Cannarium ovatum yellowish tan. The seed has a fixed oil. Oleoresin is used as stimulant, a rubefacient and antirheumatic when applied externally. Nephelium Fruit is oblong, red or yellow with thick coarse wavy hairs or soft spines.

lappaceum 31. Rimas (Breadfruit) Artocarpus communis

Roots in decoction for treating fevers, leaves for poulticing and the bark as an astringent for diseases of the tongue.
Very closely related to Kamansi (Seeded Breadfruit). Native of the Pacific Islands.

32. Sampalok (Tamarind)

Tamarindus indica

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.
The largest of the citrus fruits, with a thick yellow skin and bitter pulp that resembles grapefruit in flavor. Its edible fruit has a skin covered in a fine, velvety fur which is usually reddishbrown, 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. 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 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.

33. Lukban (Pomelo)

Citrus maxima

34. Kamagong (Velvet Apple) Diospyros blancoi

35. Saging (Banana) 36. Santol 37. Atis (Sugar Apple) 38. Papaya

Musa sapientum Sandoricum koetjape Annona squamosa Carica papaya

A sweet tasting fruit that grows in tropical and subtropical areas. Particularly abundant during the months of September, October and November.
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.

39. Kaimito (Star Apple) 40. Yantok (Ratttan Fruit of Dragons Blood)

Chrysophyllum cainito

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 articular rheumatism. The fruit has anti-oxidant properties. thought to have medicinal properties in antiquity and was also used as a dye for

Calamus manillensis The fruit of some rattans exudes a red resin called dragon's blood. This resin was

violins, among other things Leaves are smooth, oblong to broadly lanceolate, 4 to 10 centimeters long, with narrowly winged short petioles of about 1 centimeter long. Flowers are white, short-pedicelled and mostly solitary.. Fruits are hesperidums, with a loose skin and leathery pericarp, with a sweet pulp that is only fairly juicy. Green fruit turns to yellow, greenish yellow or orange.Of many varieties, the large ones attain a size of about 10 centimeters in diameter and about 9 centimeters thick. Pulp is sweet and only fairly juicy. 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.
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 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. 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. 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. 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. This fruit often regarded as one of the four most delicious fruits in the world along

41. Dalanghita

aurantium L. var. bergamina

42. (Peach-palm)

Bactris gasipaes

43. Batwan

Garcinia binucao

44. Dalandan 45. Kalamansi (Seeded Breadfruit) 46. Kamansi

Citrus aurantium Citrofortunella microcarpa Artocarpus camansi

47. Macapuno

Cocos nucifera

48. Mangosteen 49. Tiesa

Garcinia mangostana with the mango, pineapple, and cherimoya. Let me add that the mangosteen is also
such an elegantly designed fruit.

Pouteria

This heart-shaped, orang-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

campechiana

fibrous, sticky texture and thick flesh. But it has a cloying sweetness that makes one fruit too much for just one person to finish. 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.

50. Sineguelas

Spondias purpurea