Common names: Flamboyant tree, firetree. Large, deciduous tree with smooth light colored trunk. Leaves bipinnately compound, slightly hairy and to 30 cm long. Leaflets are oblong and in 18-30 pairs, to 1.5 cm long. Flowers are large, showy, red or red and yellow, to 12 cm across, irregular, with large inner standard petal and 4 pronouncedly stalked accessory petals. Pods are pendulous, elongate, woody, compressed, and to 50 cm long. Indigenous to Madagascar. Introduced in the Philippines during the early Spanish period. Used for ornamental purpose and propagated largely by seeds.
Diospyros philippinensis
Common names: Kamagong, Mabolo. Medium sized tree to 20m tall with acute tip and rounded base. Blade is glossy green, smooth above and softly hairy below. Male plant is separate from the female plant. Male flowers are white, hairy, and in groups of three to five. Female flowers are axillary, solitary, and larger than the male. Fruits are fleshy, globose, to 10cm in diameter, and densely covered with short brown hair; pulp is edible. Endemic to the Philippines. Found in forests in low and medium altitudes. Planted as shade tree in roads and parks.