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Bougainvillea (

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is a genus of flowering plants native to South

America fromBrazil west to Peru and south to southern Argentina (Chubut Province). Different authors accept between four and 18 species in the genus. The plant was classified by Europeans in Brazil in 1768, by Philibert Commeron, a French botanist accompanying French Navy admiral and explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville during his voyage of circumnavigation. They are thorny, woody vines growing anywhere from 1-12 meters tall, scrambling over other plants with their spiky thorns. The thorns are tipped with a black, waxy substance. They are evergreenwhere rainfall occurs all year, or deciduous if there is a dry season. The leaves are alternate, simple ovate-acuminate, 4-13 cm long and 2-6 cm broad. The actual flower of the plant is small and generally white, but each cluster of three flowers is surrounded by three or six bracts with the bright colours associated with the plant, including pink, magenta, purple, red, orange, white, or yellow. Bougainvillea glabra is sometimes referred to as "paper flower" because the bracts are thin and papery. The fruit is a narrow fivelobed achene. (Wikipedia) 2.SAntan Ornamental plant is an erect and smooth shrub, growing to a height of 2 to 3 meters. Leaves are stalkless or on very short stalks, oblong, 5 to 9 cm long, heart-shaped or round at the base and blunt at the tip. Flowers are many, pink or red, and borne in terminal, stalkless or shortly stalked hairy cymes. Corolla tube is slender, 2.5 cm long; lobes are spreadiing and oblong, about half the length of the tube. Fruit is reddish, almost round, about 5 mm diameter. (http://www.stuartxchange.org/Santan.html) 3. Kalatsusi is a small, deciduous tree with crooked trunk, thick fleshy branches and sticky, milky juice. The bark has a smooth, papery outer layer which is grey, shining and constantly exfoliating in small flakes. The wood is yellowish, white and soft. The branches are swollen and leafy at the tips. The leaves are alternate, oblanceolate, 20-40 cm long, pointed at the both ends and spirally arrange at the ends of the branch. The flowers are numerous, fragrant and they vary in color. The fruit has two follicles, cylindrical, with pointed tip, 15-20 cm long. (http://www.oocities.org/herbalpage/Subpage/kalatsutsi.htm) 4. Gumamela is cultivated as an ornamental flower throughout the Philippines. It is common on Mt. Banahaw. Gumamela flowers are used as an expectorant in bronchitis, for general coughs, and as a refrigerant drink in fevers. (http://www.filipinoherbshealingwonders.filipinovegetarianrecipe.com/gumamela.htm)

5. Eucalyptus trees are quick growers and many species reach a great height. Eucalyptus amygdalin (Labille ) is the tallest known tree, specimens attaining as much as 480 feet, exceeding in height even the Californian Big Tree (Sequoia gigantea). Many species yield valuable timber, others oils, kino, etc. The leaves are leathery in texture, hang obliquely or vertically, and are studded with glands containing a fragrant volatile oil. The flowers in bud are covered with a cup-like membrane (whence the name of the genus, derived from the Greek eucalyptos well-covered), which is

thrown off as a lid when the flower expands. The fruit is surrounded by a woody, cupshaped receptacle and contains numerous minute seeds.
(http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/e/eucaly14.html)

6. The cashew-nut tree is a fast grower and an evergreen tropical tree. It grows to a height of 12 m. Blossoming takes place between November and January. Seedling trees flower in the third year after planting. The fruit ripens fully within 2 months. (http://www.daff.gov.za/docs/Infopaks/cashew.htm) 7. Guayabano is a small tree, usually less than 7 meters high. Leaves are

smooth, shiny, oblong-obovate to oblong, 7 to 20 centimeters in length, pointed on both ends, with petioles about 5 mm long. Flower is solitary, large, solitary, yellow or greenish-yellow. Three outer petals are broadly ovate with a heart-shaped base, up to 5 cnetimeters long, and 3 centimeters wide; and the inner three are also large, elliptic to obovate, and rounded. Fruit is ovoid and large, up to 18 centimeters long, covered with small scattered, soft spinelike processes. Skin is thin, and the pulp is soft, rather fibrous, white, and fleshy, with an agreeable, but rather sour flavor. (http://www.stuartxchange.org/Guyabano.html
8. Guava

A small tree to 33 ft (10 in) high, with spreading branches, the guava is easy to recognize because of its smooth, thin, copper-colored bark that flakes off, showing the greenish layer beneath; and also because of the attractive, "bony" aspect of its trunk which may in time attain a diameter of 10 in (25 cm). Young twigs are quadrangular and downy. The leaves, aromatic when crushed, are evergreen, opposite, shortpetioled, oval or oblong-elliptic, somewhat irregular in outline; 2 3/4 to 6 in (7-15 cm) long, I 'A to 2 in (3-5 cm) wide, leathery, with conspicuous parallel veins, and more or less downy on the underside. Faintly fragrant, the white flowers, borne singly or in small clusters in the leaf axils, are 1 in (2.5 cm) wide, with 4 or 5 white petals which are quickly shed, and a prominent tuft of perhaps 250 white stamens tipped with paleyellow anthers. (http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/guava.html#Description)
9. Hanging Flower
Thevetia peruviana is a plant native to central and southern Mexico and Central America. It is a close relative of Nerium oleander, giving it one common name as Yellow Oleander, and is also called lucky nut in the West Indies.

Thevetia peruviana is an evergreen tropical shrub or small tree. Its leaves are willow-like, linearlanceolate, and glossy green in colour. They are covered in waxy coating to reduce water loss (typical of oleanders). Its stem is green turning silver/gray as it ages. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thevetia_peruviana)

10. PALMERA A slender, clustering palm that can grow to a height of 10 m. The graceful leaves are bright green to yellow-green, and 2 m long. The flowers are small and white, the fruits are red to violetblack. It is a native of Madagascar. It was introduced in the Philippines in the early 20th century and is now widespread in parks and gardens. It is also a popular indoors plant. The Palmera is widely planted in gardens and roadsides throughout Alabang Hills. (http://manilaoldtimer.net/Trees%20of%20Alabang%20Hills/palmera.html)

11. Talisay, Indian almond Large tree which grows to 25 m with branches spreading horizontally. The leaves are spirally arranged, to 30 cm long and turn red before falling. The small flowers grow on short spikes. The fruit is like an almond with an edible kernel. Indigenous to India, Malaysian Peninsula and the Philippines. Widely planted for its shade. (http://manilaoldtimer.net/Trees%20of%20Alabang%20Hills/talisay.html) 12. Madagascar Periwinkle The Madagascar periwinkle or rosy periwinkle, is an attractive small subshrub with graceful pink or white salverform flowers. Native to southeastern and eastern Madagascar, the plant is easily cultivated, and European colonists exported it widely as an ornamental. It is now grown almost worldwide, and is found naturalized in most tropical and subtropical regions following escapes from cultivation. Madagascar periwinkle was used in Madagascar, and in many of the countries to which it was later spread, as a folk treatment for diabetes. Researchers investigating its medicinal properties discovered that it contained a group of alkaloids that, though extremely toxic, had potential uses in cancer treatment. Two of these alkaloids, vincristine and vinblastine, can be used in purified form to treat common types of leukemia and lymphoma. The discovery of vincristine is credited with raising the survival rate of childhood leukemia from under 10% to over 90%. Thousands of childrens lives have therefore been saved by an extract of this humble garden plant. (http://eol.org/pages/581125/overview)