Locally known as Banaba. A large tree up 20 meters high, leaves; oblong to elliptic-ovate, up to 1 foot long, leathey, obtuse to shortly acuminate, in a short woody petiole, flowers; borne in a terminal 40 cm long panicle, up 3 inches in diameter, petals; 6 or more, lilac to violet, showy and striking somewhat crumpled, waxy, clawed, ob-obovate to obovate, calyx; prominent grooves of 12, fruits; globose, obovoid. Cultivated for its medicinal properties, ornamental flowers and though wood, blooms from May to August.
Leucaea leucocephala
Common name: Ipil-ipil. Shrub to small tree, to 5m tall. Leaves are evenly bipinnate, to 25cm long, with hairy rachis. Leaflets are numerous, equilateral, with 10-15 pairs in the rachis and to 10-mm long, acute. Flowers are sessile, white and in dense globose heads subtended by long peduncle. Native to tropical America. Widely distributed in thickets and open lands in the Philippines. Several new cultivars, like “Giant Ipil-ipil,” were recently reintroduced in reforestation sites.
Livistonia rotundifolia var. Luzonensis
Common name: Anahaw, common fan palm. Taller and faster growing palm than L. Chinensis. Trunk is smooth and with distinct rows of leaf scars. Leaves are crowded at the terminal of the trunk; with long and spiny petiole. Leaf blade is plated, orbicular, shiny bright green and notched at the tip into lanceolate, pointed segments. Endemic to the Philippines and is common to low land primary forests. Also commonly planted as an ornamental tree in big parks and gardens throughout the country.