2 | Chapter 8 : Philippine Native Trees

Question 1

Trunk Bark Textures (6)

looks like sandpaper

Horizontal scritches

Looks like bumps

Mostly Vertical

Irregular

Lifting off

Answer 1

Smooth

Papery

Warty

Plate Like Ridges

Ridges and Furrows

Corky Wings

Question 2

Scale Like Bark Characteristics (3)

pieces

vertical

cliff face

Answer 2

Puzzle Shaped Plates

Rectangular Plates

Irregular Plates

Question 3

Types of Leaves (5)

Answer 3

Heart

pinnately lobed

Ovate (egg shaped)

Kidney shaped

Round

Question 4

Types of leaves | heart (3)

Answer 4

Kawakawa
Pepper tree
Piper excelsum

Question 5

Types of leaves | Pinnately lobed (3)

Answer 5

Paraharaha
Hound’s tongue gern
Microsorum pustulatum

Question 6

Types of leaves | Ovate (egg shaped) (3)

Answer 6

Houhere
Lacebark
Hoheria sexstylosa

Question 7

Types of leaves | Kidney shaped (3)

Answer 7

Raurenga
Kidney Fern
Hymenophyllum nephrophyllum

Question 8

Types of leaves | Round (3)

Answer 8

Mikimiki
Coprosma
Coprosma rotundfolia

Question 9

Dry fruit (8)

Tinkerbell
Acorn
kernel
Binocular w/ flaps
Peas
Mochi
Eater plant
Pea but with waves

Answer 9

Achene
Nut
Caryopsis
Samara
Legume
Capsule
Follicle
Silique

Question 10

Fleshy fruit (5)

Hairy asshole

sad looking

orange

cucumber apple

Answer 10

Drupe
Berry
Hesperidium
Pepo
Pome

Question 11

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- Rainbow tree, Mindanao gum. Rainbow Gum

-This tree is grown widely around the world in tree plantations, mainly for pulpwood used in making white paper

Answer 11

Eucalyptus deglupta

Question 12

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- Kupang
- Commonly called tree bean, is a large native to lowland, tropical forests in Southeast Asia and Northeast India

Answer 12

Parkia timoriana (DC.) Merr.

Question 13

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- Bagawak-morado, Philippine glorybower
- native to New Guinea and the Philippines

Answer 13

Clerodendrum quadriloculare (Blanco) Merr.

Question 14

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- Banaba
- Widely distributed in the Philippines, Malay Peninsula, India, China.
- In secondary forest at low and medium altitudes.
- Its leaves have been used to treat diabetes in folk medicine for centuries

Answer 14

Lagerstroemia speciosa

Question 15

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- Malabulak, red-silk cotton tree
- From the Greek bombyx meaning silk
- In secondary forest at low and medium altitudes

Answer 15

Bombax ceiba Linn.

Question 16

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- Katmon
- a medium-sized evergreen tree that grows as high as 10 to 15 meters
- Fruits are edible

Answer 16

Dillenia philippinensis Rolfe

Question 17

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- bayok, bayog
- The bark is locally used in dyeing
- A small to medium-sized tree up to 25 m tall with trunk. diameter up to 70 m

Answer 17

Pterospermum obliquum Blanco

Question 18

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- narra
- large deciduous tree which grows to 30 m high or more.
- The compound leaves are about 12 - 22 cm long and made up of 5 - 13 smaller leaflets

Answer 18

Pterocarpus indicus Willd.

Question 19

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- lipote, lumboy
- In primary forests at low and medium altitudes.
- Fruits are edible.

Answer 19

Syzgium polycephaloides

Question 20

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- kalumpang
- Sterculia comes from sterquilinus, the Roman god of fertilizer or Manure

Answer 20

Sterculia foetida L.

Question 21

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-binuang
- low altitude riverside pioneer species, growing up to 1000m of altitude
- leaf extract is used to cure stomach-ache

Answer 21

Octomeles sumatrana Miq.