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TLE 6 – AGRICULTURE

Importance of Planting Trees and

Fruit-Bearing Trees
SECOND QUARTER
WEEK 1 – LESSON 1
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PLANT PROPAGATION

It is the process of
reproducing or creating a
new plant or seedling.
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bearing trees to the family and community

Trees are valuable to the family and the community for the
products and amenities they give such as:

1. food like fruits, vegetables, nuts, and sugar

2. wood used as fuel for cooking and heating
3. construction materials which include lumber, plywood,
and board
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bearing trees to the family and community

Trees are valuable to the family and the community for

the products and amenities they give such as:

4. fiber for the production of pulp and paper; and

5. chemical products such as resin, rubber, and

turpentine.
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▪ Some of the common trees planted in both
rural and urban areas are the following:

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 Narra
It is a large deciduous tree growing to
30–40 m tall, with a trunk up to 2 m
diameter. The leaves are 12–22 cm
long, pinnate, with 5–11 leaflets, the
girth is 12–34 m wide. The flowers
are produced in panicles 6–13 cm
long containing a few to numerous
flowers; flowering is from February
to May in the Philippines

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 Yakal
It is endemic to the Philippines,
which is known as yakal in Filipino
language. Yakal is a medium to
large tree about 25 to 30 meters tall.
Its wood is hard and dark brownish-
yellow. Branchlets are rather
slender, blackish, and slightly hairy.

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Acacia
Acacia, commonly known as the
wattles or acacias, is a large genus
of shrubs and trees in the subfamily
Mimosoideae of the pea family
Fabaceae.
Initially it comprised a group of
plant species native to Africa and
Australia, with the first species

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Palm Tree
The Arecaceae are a botanical
family of perennial plants. Their
growth form can be climbers,
shrubs, trees and stemless plants,
all commonly known as palms.
Those having a tree form are
colloquially called palm trees.

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 Banaba Tree
Lagerstroemia speciosa (giant
crepe-myrtle, Queen's crepe-
myrtle, banabá plant for
Philippines, or pride of India[2])
is a species of Lagerstroemia
native to tropical southern

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Pine Tree
A pine is any conifer in the genus
Pinus of the family Pinaceae.

Pinus is the sole genus in the

subfamily Pinoideae.

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Molave Tree
Vitex parviflora is a species
of plant in the Verbenaceae
family, also known as
smallflower chastetree or the
molave tree. It is found in
Indonesia, Malaysia, and the
Philippines.

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Mahogany Tree
Swietenia mahagoni, commonly
known as American mahogany, Cuban
mahogany, small-leaved mahogany,
and West Indian mahogany, is a
species of Swietenia native to southern
Florida in the United States and islands
in the Caribbean including the
Bahamas, Cuba, Barbados, Jamaica,
Dominican Republic and Haiti.

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Fruit-bearing trees that
one can plant
▪ Some of the common fruit-bearing trees
planted in both rural and urban areas are the
following:

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Duhat Tree
The Java Plum or Black Plum is a
large, evergreen and exotic tree
from the Myrtaceae family. It is
popularly known as “Duhat” in
the Philippines. Java Plum has
been introduced to many different
places where it has been utilized
as a fruit producer, as an
ornamental and also for its timber

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Mango Tree
Mangoes are juicy stone fruit
from numerous species of
tropical trees belonging to the
flowering plant genus
Mangifera, cultivated mostly for
their edible fruit. The majority
of these species are found in
nature as wild mangoes.
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Santol Tree
The santol is a fast-
growing, straight-
trunked, pale-barked tree
50 to 150 ft (15-45 m)
tall, branched close to the
ground and buttressed
when old.
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 Atis Tree

Atis tree and sugar apple are two common

names for Annona squamosa, a species of
small tree or shrub native to tropical areas
of the Americas. ... Seed germination is the
primary means of growing new atis trees,
but they will only germinate if sown in
rich, moist soil and kept in a warm place.

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Jackfruit Tree
The jackfruit, also known as
jack tree, is a species of tree in
the fig, mulberry, and breadfruit
family.

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Banana Tree
A banana is an edible fruit –
botanically a berry – produced by
several kinds of large herbaceous
flowering plants in the genus
Musa. In some countries, bananas
used for cooking may be called
"plantains", distinguishing them
from dessert bananas.

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