Agoho (Casuarina equisetifolia)

One of my 5 year old Agoho (Casuarina equisetifolia).  💚🌱🌳

 

Hagis (Syzygium tripinnatum)

Hagis (Syzygium tripinnatum). It started flowering last June. Hagis is a rare, edible fruit-bearing tree endemic to the Philippines. It belongs to the Myrtaceae family, making it a close relative of other local fruits like duhat, makopa, yambo and lipote.😍🌱🌳

 

Grafted Golden Queen Mango

Packing for shipment our grafted Golden Queen Mango. The Golden Queen Mango is an enormous, premium variety known for its vibrant yellow skin and exceptionally sweet, fiberless flesh. One of the largest mango varieties in the world, reaching up to 1.5 kilos per fruit, it is prized for its rich, tropical flavor and is delicious both green or fully ripe. 😍🌱🌳

 

J33 Jackfruit

Limited propagations of J33 jackfruit grafted planting materials are available for sale. The J33 Jackfruit (also known as the Malaysian Sweet or Tekam Yellow) is a premium variety highly celebrated for being one of the sweetest jackfruits in the world and featuring uniquely low latex content. This makes the fruit exceptionally easy to handle, cut, and process compared to traditional varieties. 😋💚💚

 

Clerodendrum chinense

Clerodendrum chinense is a perennial shrub in the mint family (Lamiaceae), known commonly as the Chinese glory bower or cash-money flower. It grows up to 3 meters tall and produces fragrant, double-petaled pink or white flowers resembling tiny roses. It spreads easily through root suckers. 😍🌱💚

 

Wild mushrooms

We call this Libgos. These edible seasonal fungi belong to the genus Termitomyces and grow near termite mounds, typically appearing during the rainy season in the Philippines. 🍄🍄🍄

Ficus pseudopalma

My 5 year old Ficus pseudopalma (locally known as niyog-niyogan or lubi-lubi in the Philippines). Studies show the leaves are rich in dietary fiber, carbohydrates, and beneficial plant compounds like flavonoids and tannins. They are valued for managing high blood pressure, lowering postprandial blood sugar, fighting oxidative stress, and providing a rich source of dietary fiber. A Filipino recipe of lubi-lubi leaves "ginataan" is the most common. 😍🌱🌳

 

Grafted Red Sun Jackfruit

Packing for shipment of grafted Red Sun Jackfruit. Red Sun jackfruit features vibrant orange-red flesh with an intensely sweet, sugary flavor profile. It offers a rich tropical taste reminiscent of mango, banana, and vanilla, combined with a fine, smooth, and crisp texture that is often less fibrous than standard yellow varieties.

 

Rimas / Breadfruit

One of my favorite fruit since my childhood days.  This is #Kolo fruit also known as #Rimas or #Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis). It is a rich source of complex carbohydrates, dietary fiber, vitamin C, potassium, and contains all nine essential amino acids as a gluten-free complete protein source. We are not selling the fruits, we grow our #foodforest for our own consumption for #foodsecurity. 💚🌱🌳

 

Grafted Purple Thai Mango

Packing for shipment of our Thai Purple Mango also known as Nam Doc Mai Si Mueng. Known for its deep purple-to-violet skin and golden, fiberless flesh, this variety is highly prized for being intensely sweet, aromatic, and having a smooth, creamy, and buttery texture with very low acidity. It is described as fiberless and "melt-in-the-mouth." Limited seedlings are still available.  💚🌱🌳

 

Sexy pink Heliconia

Sexy pink heliconia (Heliconia chartacea) is native to tropical South America (Brazil, Venezuela, French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, colombia, Ecuador and Peru). Its flowers are widely used for Flower Decorations and Ikebana. 😍🌱🌱

 

Tibig (Ficus nota)

Outplanted this 6 years ago from a wildling now finally fruiting. Tibig (Ficus nota) is native to the Philippines. In thickets and forests, especially in areas saturated with water, at low and medium altitudes. Ripe fruits are edible but rather tasteless; usually eaten with sugar. Young leaves eaten as vegetable.

 

Mesta Seedless Mangosteen

Sold out! Last batch shipment of our Seedless Mesta mangosteen. Another batch of grafted planting materials will be available hopefully next month. Thank you! 💚🌱🌳

 

Rosemary during rainy season

This is what happens to 15 days of rain to my Rosemary herb. It's too much.

 

Kagamkam

This is my surviving back-up specimen of Kagamkam (magnolia sp) outplanted September of 2023. The first was outplanted in 2021 but unfortunately didn't survive the long  drought of 2024. One of the rare forest tree species in Mindanao.  ❤️🌱🌳