Tilting tagpos |
Heavily laden with fruit and foliage |
The Philippines is blessed with a very high biodiversity, including the plants living in its remaining forest cover. Trees alone comprise about 3500 species. Just to research on a species a day would take about 10 years to finish all of just the trees. Then there are still the shrubs, herbs, ferns etc. Through this blog we hope to introduce you to some important plants in the forest before they completely disappear because of habitat destruction.
Tilting tagpos |
Heavily laden with fruit and foliage |
2 comments:
A. squamulosa fruits supposedly are cooked and eaten with fish in the Philippines. I have eaten some fruits raw recently. Not exactly a great flavor but interesting (slightly astringent, decent sour/sweet balance but weak, weak serviceberry like flavors too). There is research on this species for pharmaceutical use, it may have anticoagulant effects, there are "antioxidants" in it, non-polar extracts from the leaves reduce sperm count but not morphology or viability (I find non-polar extracts a bit unrealistic since the stomach doesn't work that way...). Probably a good idea if you don't make a full meal out of the fruits.
The biggest downsides are: this is a very invasive species, and the flavor (while somewhat interesting) isn't a winner compared to most fruits.
we used the for making wine and the tasre is quit good we ate the fruits...so i think the friut is edible
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