The Philippines is a state dower with alien plant life . Its volcanic soil makes this southeasterly Asian archipelago host to a great potpourri of native blooms that flourish . The Philippine island experience a tropic climate with hot and humid weather condition all twelvemonth , with regional variation – but for most of the country the two season are wet ( May to October ) and dry ( November to April ) . Its tropic mood encourage the increase of beautiful and sinful flowers .

Sampaguita (Jasminum sambac)

Revered as the Philippines ' internal flower , sampaguita produce fragrant , ashen flowers often worn as garlands or leis for special occasions such as graduations or religious gatherings . Fans of celebrities extend these leis to their favorite histrion and actresses to show their adulation . Catholic use sampaguita flowers to decorate a painting or statue of a holy person , which explains the presence of sampaguita street vendors near Catholic churches .

The sampaguita grows near houses or along roadsides in many expanse of the Philippines , but most prevalently in the state of Laguna and Pampanga . It is a spreading or straggle bush , usually less than 7 foot tall . Its foliage are shining , ovate or rounded measuring 2.5 to 6 inches long , with unretentive stalk , pointed or blunt tip and orient or rounded base . blossom are livid , very fragrant and hold singly and in threes in axillary or last inflorescence . The sampaguita has eight to 10 very slender calyx tooth that are 5 to 8 millimeters long , a slender corolla tube that is 1 to 1.5 centimeter long and a arm that measures 1.5 to 2 centimeters in diameter .

Gumamela (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis)

Belonging to the fellowship Malvaceae , gumamela ( Hibiscus genus Rosa - sinensis ) is a coarse garden plant life in the Philippines that produces large flowers , which quantify about 4 in in diam . The flowers do in snowy , chickenhearted , pink , red and thousands of colour combinations , except true blue or calamitous . Some smaller gumamela assortment have blossoms that are 2 inches in diam and the flowers of other bigger change are 10 to 12 inches in diam . The bloom come in in undivided or double stratum , count on the variety .

The gumamela ’s calyx is green and has several sepal . Gumamela develop up to 15 feet in high spirits and produces saturnine green leaves with erose edge . Some gumamela bushes grow a foot in several years while others may grow to 15 feet if left undisturbed in the land . Gumamela also grows in other component part of Asia and the Pacific islands . It is Hawaii ’s state flower and the national bloom of Malaysia . The swamp hibiscus is its native Philippine mintage .

Orchids

just about 800 species of orchids develop in the Philippines , and are becoming susceptible to extinction due to red of habitat and over - assemblage for commercial aim . Orchids grow in low - lying lands and forests of all three of the major islands that comprise the Phililippine – Luzon , Visayas and Mindanao . Some orchids bring forth fragrant odors while others are odorless , and come in a assortment of sizes and colors . The Conservation International , in cooperation with the Philippine government , is doing its part to forbid the full experimental extinction of orchids by collect and re - insert autochthonic orchidaceous plant in choose protected areas of the Philippines , as well as produce endangered mintage in - vitro .

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