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Botanical Description:
Asoka is usually a small tree growing up to 10 meters high, slow-growing when young. The bark is dark brown, gray or black. Leaves are alternate, and even-pinnate, 15 to 25 centimeters long with 3 to 6 pairs of leaflets. Leaflets are oblong or oblong-lanceolate, often blunt, up to 22 centimeters long. Depending on age, flowers are fragrant at night, orange red, or red. Corymbs are 18 centimeters across. The pod is up to 25 centimeters long.
Distribution:

• Introduced to the Philippines.
• Native to Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam.
• Cultivated in India to the Malay Peninsula.

• Classified "Vulnerable" by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. (Jan 1977)
  Source: http://www.stuartxchange.org/Asoka

Kalumpang is a spreading and deciduous tree reaching a height of 20 meters or more. Leaves are crowded at the ends of the branches, and digitately compound, with 7 to 9 leaflets. Leaves are smooth, leathery, entire, elliptic-lanceolate, 12 to 18 centimeters long, with pointed tips. Flowers are malodorous, dull, yellowish to purplish, 2 to 2.5 centimeters in diameter, and borne on panicles at the axils of the leaves, appearing with new leaves. The fruit is large, smooth, oval, red, nearly smooth, obovoid, about 10 centimeters long, containing 10 to 15 seeds, which are black and about 2 centimeters long.

These trees were located near his grandparents' mausoleum.

located in front of Taal Volcano Viewdeck.
Date Taken: November 2022

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