Common name: Mango. Medium to large tree with a dense crown. The leaves are long, narrow and spirally arranged along the branchlets. The flowers are yellowish and occur in large panicles. The fruit is flattened from side to side, ovoid, pointed at one end and hangs straight down on a long stem. Native of India, introduced to most warm countries of the world. This is the best known of tropical fruits.
Manilkara zapota
Melia azedarach
Commonly known as China berry, China tree, Pride of India. A shrub or a small tree up to 40 feet high, thick foliage, bipinnate, numerous leaflets, rough margin, sharply serrated, toothed, elliptic to ovate to lanceolate. flowers; fragrant, light purple in long open-peduncle panicles. fruits; drupe like nearly globular green turning violet as it ripened. Cultivated for aesthetic purposes and fragrance, Flowers through out the year. Native to the Asian tropic but cultivated in warm countries.
Michelia alba
A small tree or shrub; leaves, alternating, simple, compact. flowers; white to very light yellow, singly, deep fragrance, mostly axillary. petals; 9 the least radiating from the middle, pistil bearing receptacle, stamen: numerous, fruits; loosely elongated, seeds attached to the carpels by a cord. A native of China and India. Introduced to the Philippines but one specie is endemic.
Moringa oleifera
Commonly known as Horse Radish Tree; locally as Malunggay. A small tree growing up to 25 ft., soft wood with pungent odor. Leaves are compound, tripinnate, all are stalked, pinnae ranging from 4 to 6 pairs; leaflets are thin, light green beneath, edible. Flowers; white. Pods are very fibrous, ribbed, with numerous tri-angled soft seed, up to 12 inches long also edible. Distributed throughout the Philippines. Flowers from January to May. Native to India.
Muntingia calabura
Common name: Aratiles. Tree to 10m tall. With spreading branches. Leaves are alternate, distichous, oblong ovate to broad oblong, to 12cm long and to 9cm wide, acuminate and with serrate margins. Flowers are white and to 2cm in diameter. Fruits are globose, red, fleshy, and to 1.5cm in diameter; edible.