Medium sized, solitary palm, to 8m tall. Leaves are irregularly bi-pinnate and with short petioles. Leaflets are wedge-shaped or fan shaped, jagged at the apex, with numerous veins. Inflorescence is axillary, pendulous, and up to 80cm long. Spathe is less than 20 cm long. Flowers are many, in threes; the male flowers are fewer than the female flowers. Fruit is fleshy, globose, purple when ripe and with one seed. An endemic palm common in low land primary forests in the Philippines. Occasionally planted for ornamental purposes.
Chrysalidocarpus lutescens
Common name: Butterfly palm. Slender, graceful, clustering palm to 4 m tall; trunk to 8 cm in diameter, green and ringed. Leaves are to 2 m tall, ascending and curved at the apex, petiole and rachis are yellow or yellow-orange. Leaflets are linear, featherlike, to 40 cm long, bright green to yellow-green and in one plane. Flowers are small, numerous, and white. Fruit is numerous, globose, and red to violet-black. Native to Madagascar. Introduced to the Philippines early 1900s. Propagated by seeds. The genus name in Greek means golden fruit.
Chrysophyllum cainito
Common name: Kaimito, star apple. Tree that grows to 15 m tall. Exudes a milky sap. Leaves alternately arranged on two ranks of the stem, oblong, margin entire, tip acuminate and base rounded, texture leathery, dark green above and copper golden below. Corolla is tubular and campanulate, 5 lobed; stamens are 5. Fruit is edible, fleshy, globose, green, or purplish. Seeds shiny black. Native to tropical America. Introduced during the early Spanish period, it is now widely distributed throughout the Philippines.
Citrus maxima
Tree with spiny branches, to 10m tall; branchlets are compressed, slightly hairy, and green. The leaflets are ovate-oblong to elliptic, and the petioles are broadly winged. The flowers are white and fragrant. Fruit is globose to pear shaped berries, to 20cm in diameter, light yellow when ripe, with thick rind or skin, and pale yellow to pink, sweet or acid pulp. Probably native to Malay Peninsula and Polynesia. Widely distributed in the Philippines. Planted in backyards and gardens as shade or fruit trees. Propagated by seeds.
Citrus microcarpa
Small tree with somewhat spiny branches, to 5m long. Leaves have narrowly winged or bear petioles and are elliptic to oblong-elliptic, with retuse apex and acute base to 18cm long, with slightly crenate margins. Flowers are white, axillary, solitary, or in pairs and with 5-toothed calyx. Corolla lobes are elliptic oblong. Fruit is globose with smooth skin, dark green, turning yellow when ripe. To 3cm in diameter. Widely distributed in and around towns in the Philippines. Bears fruits most of the year. Propagated by seeds, marcotting, layering, budding, and grafting.
Cocos nucifera
Common names: Coconut, niyog. Solitary, erect palm to 20 m or taller, trunk to 50 cm or more in diameter, swollen at the base. Leaves are pinnately compound to 5 m, crowded at the apex of the trunk. Petioles stout to 1 m or longer. Leaflets are lanceolate, acuminate, to 1 m long. Inflorescence is to 1 m long, with tiny female and male flowers. Fruit is ovovoid to subglobose, 1-seeded, to 25 cm in diameter. Propagated by seeds. Found throughout the country. Probably native of Melanesian islands.
Cynometra ramiflora
Shrubs or trees, massively branching, leaves; alternate, compound, with leaflets arranged on either sides of a common axis, the leaflets; entire, opposite, oblanceolate, dropping in appearance, light green to green, sometimes waxy, flowers; numerous, small, axillary fascicles, short racemes, petals; up to 5, oblanceolate, equal, pod; flat, doesn't split when riped, very thick and rugose. Found in tropical countries, probably introduced.