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There are over 137 genera and about 998 species of orchids so far recorded in the Philippines as of 2007. [5] The broad lowland and hill rain forests of the Philippines, which are mostly gone today, [6] were dominated by at least 45 species of dipterocarps. These massive trees were abundant to up to 1,000 meters above sea level.
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.
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.
Petersianthus quadrialatus (also called toog and Philippine rosewood) is an emergent tropical rainforest tree species in the Lecythidaceae family. In the Visayas region called kapullan, in the Samar and Leyte areas - magtalisai. It is an indigenous tree species in the southeastern Philippines and one of the largest tree species in the ...
A number of these are strangler figs, as they germinate upon other trees, before entrapping their host tree entirely and eventually killing it. Consequently the young plants are hemiepiphytes, i.e. epiphytes or air plants that grow several hanging roots which eventually touch the ground and take root. Some baletes produce natural rubber of an ...
Indeed, the species name pseudopalma means "false palm". [4] The leaves are up to 30 -36 inches (75–90 cm) long [5] with a yellow midrib and edged with dull teeth. The fruit is a dark green fig that grows in pairs, each fruit just over an inch long. [3] In Luzon, this plant occurs in grassland and forest habitat, where it is considered common ...
In 1914, Adolph Daniel Edward Elmer described Eugenia binacag in Leaflets of Philippine Botany, the specific epithet binacag a local name for the tree, [9] but in 1915 changed the name to Eucalyptus binacag. [10] However, the species had already been named E. deglupta by Blume in 1850 and E. binacag is now regarded as a synonym. [2]
Gnetum gnemon is a gymnosperm species of Gnetum, its native area spans from Mizoram and Assam in India down south through Malay Peninsula, Malay Archipelago and the Philippines in southeast Asia to the western Pacific islands. [3] Common names include gnetum, joint fir, two leaf, melinjo/belinjo , bago , and tulip . [4]