Before COVID-19 disrupted our lives, I was commuting weekly between my Makati City office and Alcala, Cagayan, where my family is based. Work has been as heavy as it was before the pandemic, but working remotely from the province has afforded me the time to turn off my computer and head to our farm lot to work the soil, late in the afternoon until sundown. Our three hectares of agricultural plot is located on a hill that has a view of the mountains, corn and rice fields, and the Cagayan river.
Our research opened our eyes to the various types of trees that are classified either as endemic, native, or exotic to the Philippines. Endemic trees are the most wonderful kind because they are exclusively found only in the Philippines and nowhere else on the planet. They include mangkono , batikuling, bagoadlau, mayapis, and katmon.
If our endemic trees seem foreign while exotic trees sound local to our ears, the irony speaks volumes on how we’ve transformed our islands with flora that are alien to our fauna. This also demonstrates how we’ve driven our endemic trees to the remote fringes of our forests, rendering many of them in danger of extinction. In contrast, exotic trees occupy premium location and care in our parks, roads, and front yards.
My wife has embraced the method, and of the large canopy trees, she has planted dao, malabayabas, mayapis, almaciga, ipil, and bagras; of the medium trees, she has planted narra, molave, rarang, and kamagong; of the small trees, banaba, ylang-ylang, tibig, kalingag, lubeg, bignay, and marang, and; of the shrubs, kamuning, pandakaki, malatungaw, and mali-mali.
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