Syzygium polycephaloides is a small to medium-sized tree up to 25 m tall, bole up to 75 (-90) cm in diameter, bark surface purplish-grey. Leaves elliptical, oblong to oblanceolate, 6-20 cm × 4-7.5 cm, with 14-18 pairs of distinct secondary veins, petiole up to 5 mm long or leaves subsessile.

Aug 26, 2017 · Lipote is a fruit tree that is indigenous to the Philippines and can be found growing in the Bicol region and in some places in the southern part of Luzon that includes Metro Manila, Batangas, Laguna, Marinduque, and Eastern Visayas that includes Samar.

Jun 26, 2006 · The tree is medium-sized, 9 meters or more high. The fruits are borne in compact clusters, small up to 20mm in diameter, round, dark red to black, rather dry but of pleasant acid flacor. The fruit is used in the making of preserces, wine, pickle, beverages and jelly.

The Lipote tree, scientifically known as Syzygium polycephaloides or Syzygium curranii, is an evergreen fruit-bearing tree belonging to the family of Myrtaceae and it’s indigenous to the Philippines. It’s known by many other local names besides lipote, as Bahag, Baligang or Igot.

Hura crepitans, the sandbox tree, [2] also known as possumwood, monkey no-climb, assacu (from Tupi asaku) and jabillo, [3] is an evergreen tree in the family Euphorbiaceae, native to tropical regions of North and South America including the Amazon rainforest.

It is a relative of duhat, but one that is found in the Philippines and only in the Philippines! Its pink buds bloom profusely into a white cluster of flowers that eventually turn into fruits! As they ripen, the fruits exhibit a number of colors from white, mild yellow, pink, red, purple, maroon and black.

Aug 27, 2020 · Lipote is a small to medium-sized tree, reaching up to 14 meters tall. It grows in primary forests at low to medium elevations. Endemic to the Philippines, its fruit grows in clusters and is small and round, red to dark purple, and sweet to sour in taste.

Prosopis cineraria, also known as Persian mesquite or ghaf, is a species of flowering tree in the pea family, Fabaceae. It is native to arid portions of Western Asia and the Indian Subcontinent, including Afghanistan, Bahrain, Iran, India, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Its leaves are bipinnate.

Jul 18, 2009 · I am from Bicol & we call this amhi or baligang. As a kid, we used to have lots of baligang trees around our neighborhood & used to climb it or use a long pole with a small basket at the top to pick the bunches of fruits along with all the ants that usually covers it.

May 14, 2009 · i love duhat! my visayan grandparents had several trees in their backyard in dumaguete so whenever we visit in the summer, we’d climb the trees. but like kim & lyna, i love baligang (or amhi as we call it in naga) more. we used to climb or tukdol/sungkit it from the tree with all the black ants. my father is from calabanga, camsur & there ...