Donate to the Cause
Thank you so much for your interest in donating to our advocacy! Your donation will be used for food heritage research, field work expenses, website hosting and maintenance, and the like so that I can continue sharing our different local food cultures and ingredients.
Donate to the Cause
Thank you so much for your interest in donating to our advocacy! Your donation will be used for food heritage research, field work expenses, website hosting and maintenance, and the like so that I can continue sharing our different local food cultures and ingredients.
Tabo
ππͺπππΆπ¨π©π£π¦πͺπ’ π΄π’π³π’πΈπ’π€π¦π―π΄πͺπ΄
Native
Tabo (Willughbeia sarawacensis) is a large vine-bearing plant that thrives in island of Borneo and Philippines. In the Philippines, it can only be found in the island of Palawan.
It can be found in lowland and hill mixed dipterocarp forests. The species produces a round fruit that is highly palatable and said to be having a flavor between mangosteen and santol. The season of the fruit is from July to October with peak fruiting from July to August. Tabo, along with other fruits, is harvested by indigenous communities in the wild as a source of income. It is available along roadsides in southern Palawan and occasionally appears in public markets and fruit stands in Puerto Princesa City.
It is one of the few Willughbeia species in the Philippines found in the archipelago. Tabo is classified as βVulnerableβ in DENR National List of Threatened Flora.
#SavePalawanMovement #SavePalawansForests
