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    I purposely waited to blog about this until now that it is fruiting! The Rambután ( Nephelium lappaceum ) is a true Southeast Asian...

  A beautiful local tree that's part of our everyday life is the common backyard tree, Santól (Sandoricum koetjape). Many people are ...

A small yet handsome native is in flower now just outside our kitchen; it is called Katmón (Dillenia philippinensis), another endemic tre...

In the middle of the fern garden, amidst a grove of mango trees, is a lone Anubing (Artocarpus ovatus), another endemic tree, which means ...

Now emerging taller than our palms is a native dipterocarp called Alawíhaw  (sp. Alawíhao?), whose scientific name I have yet to find....

Towering in the garden in less than five years is a Píli tree ( Canarium ovatum ), one of the very first seedlings we planted when we st...

When I set out to plant a pair of shade trees for our parking area, I went to great lengths choosing a pair of native trees whose names ar...

One of my most favorite trees is the  Rímas (Artocarpus altilis), with enormous foliage and an over-all robust stance that makes it look ...

Not many people know that Lipâ is named after a tree! Indigenous to the Philippines (that is, growing naturally here in our islands but ca...

We just finished planting our Toóg seedlings (pronounced to-OG, Petersianthus quadrialatus , Philippine Rosewood) this morning, in the hop...

Since the book launch of Philippine Native Tress 101 , I've become conscious learning more about native trees in the farm. My staff ha...

Occurring naturally only in our archipelago is Ficus pseudopalma , a small but attractive tree that's quite under-rated, even taken fo...

Among the crown jewels of the Philippine rainforest, naturally growing only in our islands, is what is perhaps the most captivating ...

There is now a landmark resource book, striking that there has never been a publication, that writes and informs about and advocates plant...

Apart from the wild plants and ferns  down by the river , there is a substantial number of vines; some even flowering at this time, that...

One beautiful plant about to flower now is a true Philippine native, the Bagáwak (Clerodendrum quadriloculare). It has green leaves on t...