Loquat Trees, evergreen, crown round, usually 3–4 meters tall. Leaves thick, dark green, pubescent on lower surface, margin serrate. Flowers white or light yellow, 5–10 clustered; petals 5. Pome round, oblate, oval, or egg-shaped, yellow to orange, pericarp tomentose. 2–3 seeds in each fruit.
♦ Fruiting: from February to April ♦ Seed Source: Fruit markets ♦ Time required for germination: About 1 week
Poonga-oil Tree Trees, semi-deciduous, 6–12 meters. Leaves odd pinnately compound, 5–7 foliolate; leaflets stalked, opposite, subcoriaceous, oblong lanceolate, glossy, light red when young, green when older. Inflorescences racemose, axillary. Flowers lavender, flowering and falling at the same time. Two annual flowering and fruiting periods. Fruit a pod, flat and slightly falcate, green when young, dark brown when ripe.
♦ Fruiting: from March to May, August to November ♦ Seed Source: Parks, campuses, street trees ♦ Time required for germination: About 2 weeks
Durian Trees large, evergreen. Leaves alternate, glossy, upper surfaces dark green, lower surfaces covered with dense roundish yellow scales. Fruit big as a football, rind covered with solid, thick and triangular thorn; pulp light yellow, sticky and juicy, sweet, with strong odor. 2–5 brown seeds in each compartment.
♦ Fruiting: from March to June ♦ Seed Source: Fruit markets ♦ Time required for germination: About 3 weeks
Manila Champereia Trees, evergreen, 4–7 meters tall; bark glabrous, grey-white; branches slender. Leaves alternate, petioles short; blades obovate, long-oval, or lanceolate, base obtuse or acute, apex acute to acuminate. Inflorescences raceme. Drupe oval, glabrous, orange-red when ripe.
♦ Fruiting: from April to June ♦ Seed Source: Parks, gardens, street trees ♦ Time required for germination: About 2 weeks
False Jerusalem Cherry Green shrubs, perennial, about 1 meter high. Stems erect, slender, blackish green, with many tometose branches. Leaves alternate, no stipule, oblanceolate, slightly curved, margin undulate; upper surface dark green, lower surface light green. Rubbing leaves smells fishy. Flowers white. Fruit green when young, yellowish-orange or reddish orange when ripe, diameter < 1 cm, toxic.
♦ Fruiting: from April to October ♦ Seed Source: Parks, gardens ♦ Time required for germination: About 2 weeks
Rose Apple Trees, evergreen, to 10 meters tall, broadly branched forming a conical or short ovate crown. Leaves thin, leathery, oblong-lanceolate; upper surface dark green, lower surface yellowish green; young leaves light fuchsia. Flowers aromatic, 2–6 clustered on top of branches, cyme; stamens (filaments) puff-like radiation; petals light yellowish-green or greenish white. Fruit ovate or compressed orbiculate, pale yellowish white or with a little flush, not juicy, slightly sweet taste, with rose fragrance, pulp thin, 1–3 seeds in each fruit.
♦ Fruiting: from May to June ♦ Seed Source: Parks, gardens, campuses ♦ Time required for germination: About 2 weeks
Peanut Herbs, annual. Stems erect or procumbent. Leaves pinnate. Inflorescences axillary racemose. Flowers yellow, butterfly-like; pedicels rapidly elongated and down into the soil after pollination; ovaries developing to pods in the dark. Seeds (peanut kernels) ellipsoid or conical; color various with light red, red, yellow, purple, black and so on in different varieties.
♦ Fruiting: from May to July and September to December ♦ Seed Source: Markets ♦ Time required for germination: About 1 week
Ceylon Ardisia Trees or shrubs, evergreen. Leaves alternate, acuminate-oblong, oblanceolate or obovate, apex somewhat acute. Inflorescences umbellate or short racemes, axillary. Flowers reddish; calyx with gland dots. Berry compressed globose, earthy-yellow to red as growing, and black purple at maturity.
♦ Fruiting: from May to August ♦ Seed Source: Parks, gardens, campuses ♦ Time required for germination: About 3 weeks
Formosan Nato Tree Evergreen trees; bark with rich milk, similar to rubber latex. Branches with “leaf marks,” brown velvet on new or small branches. Leaves alternate, thickly coriaceous, oblong or obovate, often clustered at branch apexes. Flowers axillary, clusters; corolla pale yellow green. Drupes; light green and ball-shaped at young, yellowish green and football-shaped at maturity. 1–3 seeds in each fruit.
♦ Fruiting: from May to August ♦ Seed Source: Parks, campuses, street trees ♦ Time required for germination: About 3 weeks
Agarwood Leaves alternate, leathery, oval-lanceolate. Inflorescences umbellate. Flowers fragrant, yellowish green; pedicels and calyx densely white pubescence; petals 5, slightly reflexed, creamy yellow. Fruit with persistent calyx, pear-shaped, about 4 cm long, 3 cm wide, 2 cm thick; two rooms, each with one dark brown seed. Pericarp leathery to woody, sparsely pubescent.
♦ Fruiting: from May to October ♦ Seed Source: Seed merchants, campuses ♦ Time required for germination: About 1 week