1.

IPIL IPIL
Leucaena leucocephala L.
A small tree, commonly reaching 3-15 m tall and 10-35 cm in bole diameter; and older trees may reach 20 m tall
and 50 cm in diameter. Form varies from shrubby and highly branched in subsp. leucocephala to arborescent with a short
clear bole to 5 m, upright angular branching and an open, rounded crown in subsp. glabrata. Bark is mid grey-brown with
shallow rusty orange-brown vertical fissures; slash reddish. Leaves bipinnate with 4-9 pairs of pinnae per leaf and 13-21
pairs of leaflets per pinna. The leaflets are small, 9-21 mm long, 2-4.5 mm wide, linear-oblong or weakly elliptic, acute at
the tip, rounded to obtuse at the base and glabrous except on margins, with a concave, cup-shaped, elliptic petiole gland.
Flowers arranged on compact globose heads, the flower heads in groups of 2-6 in leaf axils arising on actively growing
young shoots, the leaves developing simultaneously with the flowers, the heads 12-21 mm in diameter with 100-180
flowers per head, the flowers white. Hairy anthers (visible with a hand lens) distinguish Leucaena from all other mimosoid
legume genera. Pods are 9-19 cm long, 13-21 mm wide, linear-oblong and flat with papery pod walls, mid- to orangebrown, glabrous and slightly lustrous (subsp. glabrata and subsp.ixtahuacana), or densely covered in white velvety hairs
(subsp. leucocephala), arranged in clusters of 3-20, and occasionally up to 45, per flower head.
2. Travelers palm
Ravenala madagascariensis L.

Ravenala madagascariensis, commonly called traveller's tree or traveller's palm, is a large tree-like plant which is native
to moist forests in Madagascar where it will grow over time to 30-50' This plant features an unbranched trunk (to 12"
diameter) which is topped by a fan-shaped single plane of enormous, long-stalked, banana-like, deep green leaves (2030 per trunk). Each leaf blade is 5-10' long by 2-3' wide and appears at the end of a thick, grooved leaf stalk (petiole)
which is as long or longer than the leaf blade. Leaf margins are sometimes split as is the case with some bananas. Up to
one quart of rain water will accumulate in the expanded and cupped base of each leaf stalk, thus giving rise to the
common names for this plant which suggests an emergency drinking water source for travellers in need. Showy 3-petaled
white flowers in cymes rise from boat-shaped spathes in a manner reminiscent of this plant's bird-of-paradise (Strelitzia)
relative. Flowers bloom in summer plus sporadically throughout the rest of the year. Flowers are followed by woody
capsules (to 3 1/2" long) containing edible seeds covered by bright blue arils. In early years, the trunk of this plant is
subterranean (not visible), with the fan of leaves sitting on the ground. Eventually the trunk does appear and lengthen,
with somewhat attractive leaf scar rings forming on the trunk surface as the lower leaves drop.
3. TALAHIB
Saccharum spontaneum L.
Talahib is a coarse, erect, perennial grass, usually more or less tufted, with stout underground rootstock, growing
to a height of 1 to 3.5 meters. Leaves are harsh and linear, 0.5 to 1 meter long; 6 to 15 millimeters wide. Panicles are
white and erect, measuring 15 to 30 centimeters long, with slender and whorled branches, the joints covered with soft
white hair. Spikelets are about 3.5 millimeters long, much shorter than the copious, long, white hairs at the base.

4. Zigzag Plant
Euphorbia tithymaloides .

The shrub can grow to 6 to 8 feet (1.8 to 2.4 m) in height and generally is about 18 to 24 inches (46 to 61 cm) in width.
[13]

The leaf is asimple angiosperm leaf, arranged oppositely on the stem.[2][13] Each leaf is sessile (attaching directly to the

plant), and about 1.4 to 3 inches (3.6 to 7.6 cm) in length.[2][13] The leaves are glabrous (smooth) and acuminate in shape,
with entire (smooth) edges.[2][13] The veins in the leaves are pinnate.[2][13]
The plant terminates in a dichotomous cyme, with a peduncle supporting each flower.[2][13] The floral leaves are bifid (split
in two parts) and ovate, while the involucral bracts are bright red, irregularly acuminate in shape (e.g., like a slipper), and
about 0.043 to 0.051 inches (1.1 to 1.3 mm) in length with a long, thin tube.[2][13] The flower is void of scent.[14]The
male pedicel is hairy, while the female is glabrous.[13] The seed pod is about 0.30 inches (7.6 mm) long and 0.35 inches
(8.9 mm) wide, and ovoid in shape (with truncated ends). [13]
The plant generally flowers in mid-spring

5. Talisay Tree
Terminalia catappa L.
Terminalia catappa L. is a tall deciduous and erect tree reaching 15-25 m, trunk 1-1.5 m in diameter, often buttressed at
the base. Whorls of nearly horizontal, slightly ascending branches spaced 1-2 m apart in tiers, or storeys, up the trunk.
The pagoda-like habit becomes less noticeable as the branches elongate and droop at the tips. Bark grey-brown, rough
with age. Leaves alternate obovate with short petioles, spirally clustered at the branch tips, 15-36 cm long, 8-24 cm wide,
dark green above, paler beneath, leathery and glossy. They turn bright scarlet, dark red, dark purplish-red, or yellow.
Flowers slightly fetid, greenish-white, very small, with no petals but 10-12 conspicuous stamens, arranged in several
slender spikes 15-25 cm long in the leaf axils. The majority of the flowers are male and borne towards the apex, while a
few hermaphroditic ones appear below. Some spikes have only male flowers. Fruit hard, to 7 cm, green-red, rounded and
flattened, egg-shaped, with 2 ridges but no wings, 2.5 x 3-6 cm long, yellow or reddish when ripe. The cylindrical, oilcontaining seeds are encased in a tough, fibrous husk within a fleshy pericarp. There are about 24 fresh fruits and 160
nuts per kg.
The generic name comes from the Latin terminalis (ending) and refers to the habit of the leaves being crowded at the
ends of the shoot
6. Stinking Passion Flower
Passiflora foetida L.
P. foetida is a branched annual or perennial herbaceous vine 1-5 m tall with an annual or perennial woody tap root. Most
parts of the above ground plant carry distinctive glandular hairs, the tips of which secrete a distinctively odorous
substance. The plant scrambles or climbs by means of tendrils, and spreads only by seed. Stems 1-5 m long, branched,
herbaceous, round, green and finely hairy. Leaves single, alternate, stipules to 1 cm long and divided into hair-like
segments, petiole 2-10 cm long without nectary glands, blades 5-15 cm long, 3 or 5 lobed, the base cordate, the edges
generally fringed with glandular hairs, the veins prominent, pale green and often finely hairy. Tendrils leaf-opposed,
unbranched, coiling and grasping. Flowers solitary in upper leaf axils, peduncle 3-5 cm long, bracts 2-4 cm long and
deeply divided into hair-like segments that surround the flower and fruit, sepals 5, greenish petals 5, blunt, white to pale
purple or pinkish, 3-5 cm across surrounding a 2-rowed corona of purplish filaments, 5 stamens spreading at the top of a
column, styles 3. Fruits oval, 2-3 cm long, smooth, enclosed in hairy bracts. At first fleshy and green, maturing dry and
yellow or orange to red, sometimes spotted, even pale green (Amela Garcia, unpublished data). Ripe seeds blackish,

flattened, wedge-shaped, 3-4 mm long, irregularly ridged, surrounded by a transparent aril. Seedlings with epigeal
germination. Hypocotyl 8-12 mm long, hairless, light green. Cotyledons shortly stalked, oblong, light green, 8-12 mm long,
hairless, strongly veined. Juvenile leaves single, ovate, irregularly lobed, 12-14 mm long, with glandular hairs on margins
and stalks. Seedlings foetid when crushed.

7. Isis plant
Leucosyke capitellata L.
Leucosyke capitellata L. is a dioecious shrub or small tree that can reach up to 8 meter tall. The leaves are arrange
spirally with the upper ones is often distichous, simple, elliptical-oblong, 8-17.5 cm x 3-6.5 cm. acute to obtuse at base,
acuminate at apex, finely serrate, white tomentose below, 3- veined from the base and with 1-3 pairs of secondary veins.
The petiole is 1-3 cm long. The stipules connate into an axillary scale which is up to 2.5 cm long and caduceus
The inflorescence is an pseudo-axillary, penduncled, spherical head is 0.5-1 cm in diameter with 2 heads often close
together. The flowers are unisexual, regular and small. The male flowers are with 5- parted perianth, 5 stamens and
rudimentary pistil while the female flowers are with cup-shaped, 4-5- dentate perianth and obliquely ovoid, superior, 1celled ovary, sessile stigma and capitate
The fruit is 1-seeded with fleshy pericarp and thinly crustaceous while the endocarp is white

8. Baho-baho
Lantana camara L.

A much-branched, upright (erect), arching or scrambling shrub that usually grows 2-4 m tall and forms dense thickets. It
can occasionally grow like a vine (as a scandent shrub) due to its patterns of short branches and if there is support by
other vegetation, in which case it can reach up to 15 m in height.
The young stems are usually green and square-shaped (quadrangular) in cross-section. They are rough to the touch,
often armed with short prickles, and can be hairy. As they mature the stems become rounded and turn grey or brown in
colour. In some wild varieties the stems are armed with small or large spines, in others they are smooth. The leaves are
simple and oppositely arranged along the stem. They have leaf stalks (petioles) that are 5-30 mm long and a crenate or
serrated (toothed) margin. The leaf blades are mostly egg-shaped in outline with broad end at base (ovate) and are 2-12
x 1.5-7 cm in size. The texture of the leaf is quite rough (scabrous), however, the underside can be softly hairy.
Its dense flower clusters consist of numerous small tubular flowers (9-14 mm long and 4-10 mm across). These flower
clusters are borne on stalks originating in the leaf forks. The flowers can be a wide variety of colours (white, cream,
yellow, orange, red, pink, purple and are usually made up of three circles of florets - each one commonly of a different
colour (except in some cultivated varieties bred to have single colours) . There are over 100 different combinations of
flower colours in wild varieties. The fleshy fruit is glossy in appearance and black, purplish-black or bluish-black when
mature, 3-6 mm in diameter containing 1-2 seeds (1.5 mm long). Flowering and fruiting throughout the year with a peak
during the first two months of the rainy season.
9. Crow Feet
Dactyloctenium aegyptium L.
D. aegyptium is a grass, with characteristic 'bird's foot' digitate inflorescence, up to 50 cm tall. Annual, never
stoloniferous. Culms up to 50 cm tall, up to 5 noded, geniculately ascending, usually rooting from the lower nodes, thus
giving the plants a pseudo-stoloniferous appearance, not rarely forming radiate mats, branched from the lower nodes;

internodes cylindrical, glabrous, smooth, striate, exserted above, variable in length; nodes thickened and glabrous. Young
shoots cylindrical or rounded. Leaf-sheaths keeled, up to 5 cm long, rather lax, striate, tuberculately hairy on the keel or
quite glabrous; ligule membranous, about 1 mm long, ciliolate along the upper edge; leaf blades flat when mature, rolled
when in bud, linear, tapering to a fine point, up to 20 cm long and 12 mm wide, with 3-5 primary nerves on either side of
the midrib, glaucous, usually more or less densely tuberculately hairy along the margins and the keel, less conspicuously
so on the adaxial surface towards the tip.
Inflorescence digitate, composed of 4-8 spreading spikes. Spikes 1.5-6 cm long, on maturity often somewhat recurved,
greenish-yellow or pallid; rachis keeled, smooth near the base, scaberulous towards the apex, tip mucroniform and
curved. Spikelets 4 mm long, strongly compressed, ovate, solitary, sessile, patent alternately left and right on the ventral
side of the axis; dense, forming a very flat comb, usually 3-flowered; lower florets bisexual, the upper florets rudimentary;
axis without terminal stipe. Lower glume 2 mm long and 2 mm wide, ovate in profile, 1-nerved, sharply keeled, keel
scabrid; upper glume 2 mm long excluding the 1.5-2 mm-long awn, oblong in profile, 1-nerved, sharply keeled, keel
scabrid. Rachilla slender. Lemmas 3-4 mm wide, the upper smaller in dimensions (but similar), folded about the keel
which is scabrid, broadly ovate in profile, lateral nerves delicate and indistinct; uppermost lemma epaleate. Paleas about
3 mm long, 2-nerved, keels scabrid, dorsally concave, shortly bifid at the apex. Three anthers, pale-yellow, 0.3-0.5 mm
long, anther cells somewhat remote, with a conspicuous connective. Caryopsis sub-triangular or sub-quadrate, laterally
compressed, rugose, light-brown, apex truncate, never convex, remains of pericarp at times visible.

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