Small tree to 5m tall or more. Leaves are alternate and reduced to leaf like petioles (phyllodes) that look like simple leaves. Phyllodes are green, oblong curved and to 20 cm long. Flowers are bright yellow and in short, racemose spikes. Fruit is a twisted pod. From tropical North Australia, introduced in the Philippines as reforestation species. A hardy tree planted on road sides that can tolerate prolonged drought.
Araucaria heterophylla Franco
Cone shaped evergreen tree that rises to 15m tall, with lateral branches from main trunk arranged in whorls. The branches are longest at the base, gradually becoming shorter upwards. Leaves are small, needle like and crowded along the branches and branchlets. Native to Norfolk island. Widely distributed in the Philippines. Planted in parks and big gardens. Propagated by cuttings of ends of young shoots.
Alternanthera sessiles amoena
Tree that grows to a height of 15 m. Exudes a milky sap. Leaves to 15 cm long, elliptic-oblong to obovate, entire, shining dark green but turns orange with age. Stipules deciduous. Female flowers are produced in enclosed receptacle called synconium from the trunk or large branches of the tree, the male heads are terminal or axillary, cylindric, to 8 cm long, about 2.5 cm in diameter. Multiple fruit with rough surface and numerous punctuate tips. green but turning yellow when ripe, fleshy, oblong, up to 60 cm long.
Introduced to and cultivated in the Philippines both as fruit and ornamental tree Native to India and the Malay Peninsula.
Amaranthus spinosus
A stout, armed with slender axillary spikes, leaves; long-petioled, oblong to ob-ovate to elleptic-lanceolate, obtuse, flowers; in ascending erect clusters, axillary and elongated, terminal, flowers; with spikes, light green to green with tint of white. Found in waste places and gardens, through out the Philippines and other tropical countries.
Artocarpus heterophyllus
An annual grass, erect, branched, coarse, leaves; with long and slender petiole, obtuse, notched tip, various size, spikes; terminal and axillary, uninterrupted, flowers; small, densely scattered, green to light yellow, seeded. Found in open waste places and gardens, all the year throughout the Philippines.