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Pages in category "Trees of the Philippines" The following 117 pages are in this category, out of 117 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Botanical gardens in Philippines have collections consisting entirely of Philippines native and endemic species; most have a collection that include plants from around the world. There are botanical gardens and arboreta in many provinces, municipalities, and cities of Philippines, some administered by local governments and some are privately owned.
The diverse flora includes 8,000 species of flowering plants, 1,000 kinds of ferns, and 800 species of orchids. Seventy to eighty percent of non-flying mammals in the Philippines are found nowhere else in the world. [1] Common mammals include the wild hog, deer, wild carabao, monkey, civet cat, and various rodents.
The families of gingers, begonias, gesneriads, orchids, pandans, palms, and dipterocarps are particularly high in endemic species. For example, two-thirds of the 150 species of palms present in the country are found nowhere else in the world. There are over 137 genera and about 998 species of orchids so far recorded in the Philippines as of ...
Pages in category "Individual trees in the Philippines" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. M. Meycauayan Tree
The following is a list of individual trees. Trees listed here are regarded as important or specific by their historical, national, locational, natural or mythological context. The list includes actual trees located throughout the world, as well as trees from myths and religions
Dipterocarp trees with wide buttresses dominate this area. [7] These trees are massive, growing up to 60 metres (200 ft) tall with diameters between 1–2 metres (3.3–6.6 ft). [2] Vatica pachyphylla is a critically endangered tree species endemic to the ecoregion. [8] The mature lowland forests tend to have an uneven canopy height.
Dipterocarpaceae is a family of flowering plants with 22 genera [3] and about 695 known species [4] of mainly lowland tropical forest trees.Their distribution is pantropical, from northern South America to Africa, the Seychelles, India, Indochina, Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines.