Palaquium is a genus of about 120 species of trees in the family Sapotaceae. Their range is from India across Southeast Asia, Malesia, Papuasia and Australasia, to the western Pacific Islands.
The plate-billed mountain toucan is a species of bird in the family Ramphastidae. It is native to the west slope of Ecuador and extreme southern Colombia, where it lives in the high-altitude humid montane forests of the Andes. It is also known as the laminated hill-toucan, laminated mountain-toucan, and plain-billed mountain-toucan.
The little golden-mantled flying fox is a species of bat in the family Pteropodidae. It is found in Indonesia and the Philippines. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by hunting and habitat loss, as well as pollution.
Alstonia macrophylla, the hard alstonia, hard milkwood or big-leaved macrophyllum, is a species of plant in the family Apocynaceae.
Betula uber, Virginia round-leaf birch, is a rare species of tree in the birch family. One of the most endangered species of North American trees, it is endemic to Smyth County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. It is part of the temperate broadleaf and mixed forests biome.
Illicium ternstroemioides is a species of tree in the family Schisandraceae, or alternately, the Illiciaceae. It is native to northern Vietnam and Hainan Island in China.
Juglans jamaicensis, the West Indian walnut, nogal, or palo de nuez, is a species of walnut in the Juglandaceae family. It is found in Cuba, [[Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico. It is not, in fact, native to Jamaica, as its name would suggest.
Palaquium luzoniense, also called red nato, is a species of plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is endemic to the Philippines. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Palaquium ravii is a species of plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is native to Kerala and Tamil Nadu in India.
Securinega flexuosa is a species of plant in the family Phyllanthaceae. It is endemic to the Philippines and it is classified under "vulnerable" by the IUCN. The wood of this plant is usually used as building materials particularly as rafter, house post or agricultural implements. In the Philippnes, this plant is locally known as anislag, tras or malagau.
Barringtonia asiatica is a species of Barringtonia native to mangrove habitats from islands of the Indian Ocean in the west to tropical Asia and islands of the western Pacific Ocean. It is grown along streets for decorative and shade purposes in some parts of India, for instance in some towns on the southeastern shore. It is also known as Box Fruit due to the distinct box-shaped fruit it produces. The local name futu is the source of the name for the Polynesian island Futuna. The type specimen was collected by botanist Pehr Osbeck on a sandy beach area on the island of Java, later to be described by Carl Linnaeus in his Species Plantarum in 1753.
Cinnamomum mercadoi (kalingag) is a small tree, about 6 to 10 metres high, with a thick, aromatic bark. The plant part of the family Lauraceae, which contains about 45 genera and 2000-2500 species, and is related to the culinary cinnamon, sassafras, and bay tree. The plant is indigenous to the Philippines, where it grows best in forests at low and medium altitudes that sometimes ascend to 2,000 metres (6,600 ft). C. mercadoi is unusual in the cinnamon family in that its essential oil consists large amounts of safrol, whereas other oils of cinnamon contain cinnamaldehyde. It is currently listed in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List as "vulnerable" due to the overharvesting and the continuous loss of the Philippine forests.
Palaquium calophyllum is a tree in the family Sapotaceae. The specific epithet calophyllum means "beautiful leaves".
Palaquium gutta is a tree in the family Sapotaceae. The specific epithet gutta is from the Malay word getah meaning "sap or latex". It is known in Indonesia as karet oblong.
Palaquium hexandrum is a tree in the family Sapotaceae. The specific epithet hexandrum means "six stamens", referring to the flowers.
Palaquium ottolanderi is a tree in the family Sapotaceae.
Palaquium pseudorostratum is a tree in the family Sapotaceae. The specific epithet pseudorostratum is for the species' similarity to Palaquium rostratum.
Lycodon chrysoprateros, also known as Ross' wolf snake, is a species of colubrid snake found on the island of Dalupiri in the Philippines.
Licania platypus, also known as sun sapote, sansapote, sonzapote, sunzapote, sungano, zapote cabelludo, sapote, sangre, zapote amarillo, zapote borracho, zapote cabello, zapote de mico, zapote de mono, mesonsapote, mezonzapote, cabeza de mico, caca de nino, sonza, sunza, zunza, chaute jolobob, urraco, chupa, and monkey apple, is a flowering tree in the family Chrysobalanaceae.
Litsea garciae, also known as engkala, kalangkala, kangkala, medang, pangalaban, ta'ang, malai, wuru lilin, kelimah, bua talal, kelime, kelimie, bua' vengolobon, wi lahal, kelima, mali, beva' mali, kayu mali, malei, pengalaban, pengolaban, kupa, pipi, bagnolo, lan yu mu jiang zi, lan yu mu, buah tebuluh, tebulus, pong labon, and Borneo avocado, is a flowering tree in the family Lauraceae.
