HORTI 57

Laboratory Exercise No. 1

Exercise 1: Identification and Classification of Plantation Crops in Central Mindanao

University

IDENTIFIED CROP CLASSIFICATION CHARACTERISTICS / OTHER RELEVANT FEATURES ECONOMIC

IMPORTANCE
Coconut-cainglet Oil crops - A long-lived plant. • Agricultural
- It has a single trunk, 20-30 meter tall. Industry
-Its bark is smooth and gray, marked by ringed scars • Food and
left by fallen leaf bases. Beverage Industry
- can live as long as 100 years producing an annual • Cosmetics and
yield of 50 to 100 coconuts. Personal Care
• Biofuel
Production
• Tourism
• Export Revenue
• Employment
• Health and
Wellness Trends

Coffee-cainglet Beverage Crops - A small tree that is between 2m and 8m tall. • Global Trade
- Has evergreen, usually shiny leaves • Employment
- The flowers are white and sweetly scented. • Income for
- The fruits are red, but sometimes yellow or purple. Farmers
- Each fruit produces two green seeds, which are • Foreign
commonly known as coffee beans. Exchange
Earnings
• Infrastructure
Development
• Support for
Communities
• Coffee Tourism
• Diversification
• Investment
Opportunities
 • Commodity
Prices
• Innovation
• Market
Influence

Rambutan-adonis Oil Crops - An evergreen tree, growing to a height of 20 m. - Agricultural

- could be suitable as a cocoa - leaves are dark green in color, flowers are greenish Industry
butter substitute white, fragrant. - Export and
- SHAMPOO AND LOTION - Fruit has thin reddish or orange-yellow rind covered Trade
DEVELOPMENT CONTAINING with thick, coarse hairs or long, soft spines on the - Tourism
RAMBUTAN SEED OIL surface. - Value-Added
- How do you extract oil from Products
rambutan seeds? - Local Markets
Results showed that
rambutan seed should be
finely ground to 35 mesh
sieve, soaked with
ethanol/ethyl acetate (3/1,
v/v) for 30 min,
solvent/material ratio (7/1,
v/w), extraction temperature
(50 °C) in 60, 75, 90 min to
obtain the high recovery
efficiency (95.70±0.01 %) and
medium antioxidant potential
Rattan-benalon - Mature rattan palms have a vine-like habit, - Employment
Fiber Crops scrambling through and over other vegetation. - Crafts
- They are monocots and thus do not exhibit secondary - Manufacturing
growth. industry
- The width of juvenile rattan palms is the same as - Construction
adult palms, usually around 2–5 centimeters (3⁄4–2 - Medicinal uses
inches) in diameter, with long internodes between the
leaves.
- Rattans have been known to grow up to hundreds of
meters long.

Abaca - burato - Abaca is a leaf fiber, composed of long slim cells that
form part of the leaf's supporting structure.
- Lignin content is a high 15%
Fiber crops - Can grow up to 5-9 meters in height
- Abaca is prized for its great mechanical strength,
- resistance to saltwater damage
- long fiber length – up to 3 m

Papaya-pojas Essential-Oil Producing Crops - A short-lived perennial growing to 30 ft (9.14 m) high. - Employment
 - PAPAYA SEED OIL can aid in - Its hollow, herbaceous stem is usually unbranched. - Export and
the relief of itchy, scaly, - Deeply lobed, palmate leaves are borne on long, Trade
irritated skin conditions such hollow petioles emerging from the stem apex. - Manufacturing
as eczema and psoriasis. - Fruits are smooth skinned, vary widely in size and Industries
PAPAYA SEED OIL also shape, depending on variety and type of plant.
contains a significant amount
of Vitamin C. Vitamin C can
help combat wrinkles,
blotches, large pores, acne,
dark spots and other skin
blemishes.

Rubber Tree-abalayan Latexes and Resins - It reaches heights of 25 meters in cultivation and up - Employment
to 40 meters in the wild. - Exportation
- The tree has a smooth, upright trunk with grayish - Manufacturing
bark. Industries
- Latex is extracted from its laticiferous system through
trunk tapping.
- The tree's leaves are trifoliate, 10-15 cm long, and 3-6
cm wide.
- Its flowers are monoecious, with female flowers at
the top and male flowers on the sides in panicles.
Cacao-abalayan Beverage Crops - A compact, evergreen tree reaching 3-4 meters in -Generates
height with a spreading canopy. export revenues
- Its leaves are dark green and glossy, featuring - Income and
yellowish-white veins. employment
- The tree produces short, thick clusters of yellowish- - Food Product
white flowers. Industries
- Cocoa pods, the tree's fruits, have a leathery skin and - Pharmaceutical
contain 30 to 50 cocoa seeds. and cosmetics
- These seeds are encased in a sweet, edible white industries
pulp.
-- The seeds can be ground to produce cocoa powder,
a primary ingredient in chocolate production.

Footstool palm(Anahaw)- Fiber Crops -Grows up to a height of 15 to 20 meters and 25 cm in - Employment

diameter. - Exportation
- Leaves are packed at the top of the tree leaving a - Manufacturing
straight trunk marked with leaf scars. Industries
- Leaves and the trunk known as the “petiole” have
hard thorns.
- Its green, fan-shaped leaves that grow up to one
meter in diameter are pleated with approximately 2.5
to 4 cm per segment.
- Produces small green flowers that develop into
yellow fruits with 1.5 cm in diameter enclosing a hard,
round, brown seed inside.
Pandan-pojas Fiber Crops - Grows as tall as 5 meters, with erect, small branches. - Employment
- Its trunk bears plenty of prop roots. - Export
- Its leaves spiral the branches, and crowds at the end. potentials
Its male inflorescence emits a fragrant smell, and - Manufacturing
grows in length for up to 0.5 meters. Industries
- Fruit is about 20 centimeters long, are angular in
shape, narrow in the end and the apex is truncate.

Pili Nuts Essential-Oil Producing Crops -Reaches a height of about 50 meters (160 feet) and a • Employment
trunk diameter of 2 meters (6.6 feet). • Income for
-It has deeply furrowed bark and compound leaves Farmers
with 9–17 finely toothed leaflets, arranged in feather • Exportation
fashion. • Manufacturing
- At maturity the fleshy hulls of the short-clustered Industries
fruits dry, split along suture lines, and separate into
four approximately equal sections, thus gradually
freeing the nuts.
Nuts have mottled brown shells varying greatly in
thickness; their size varies from 100 to 500 per kg (45
to 225 per pound) .

Santol or Cotton Fruit Medicinal and Biocidal Crops - It reaches a height of 15 to 45 meters high. Employment
- Spirally-arranged leaves are compound, with 3 Exportation
Santol leaves and bark – have leaflets, elliptic to oblong ovate, 20-25 cm long. Manufacturing
medicinal uses, as poultice on - fruit is globose or oblate Industries
itching skin.
The bark is used in tanning
fishing lines.
c. Santol stem - has shown
 anti-cancer properties in-
vitro.
d. Extracts from santol seeds
have insecticidal properties.

Mango Beverage Crops - reaching 15–18 metres (50–60 feet) in height . Employment
- simple leaves are lanceolate, up to 30 cm (12 inches) Exportation
long. Manufacturing
- The flowers—small, pinkish, and fragrant—are borne Industries
in large terminal panicles (loose clusters).
- The fruit is oval, round, heart-shaped, kidney-
shaped, or long and slender.

Banana
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