Common names: Tamarind, sampalok. Large tree to 10m or taller. Leaves are even pinnate to 10cm long; leaflets are oblong, to 2cm long, flowers light yellow with pink stripes. Fruit is oblong, constricted, thick, and to 15cm long, with fleshy, acidic and edible mesocarp. Probably native to tropical Africa. Now pantropic. Introduced to the Philippines in pre-historic times. Widely cultivated around the country. Grown mainly for its edible sweet and sour fruit.
Terminalia catappa
Common names: Talisay. This is a small to medium-sized tree with whorled horizontal branches and large obovate, dark green leaves. The flowers are axillary and occur in slender spikes. The fruit is flattened or compressed and narrowly winged. The leaves often turn red before falling and at times may be badly worm-eaten. Indigenous in India, Malay Peninsula, and the Philippines. Cultivated as a shade tree in parks and gardens around the country.
Thevetia peruviana
Commonly known as Yellow Oleander, Campanilla. A shrub or small tree, 2 to 5 meters high, stems with milky sap, leaves; linear, less wide, nearly sessile to sessile, terminal, waxy above, green to dark green, flowers; bright yellow, 2 to 3 inches long, terminal, peduncled, fruit; drupe, green turning black, thin flesh. Cultivated as an ornament, introduced from tropical America.