Where have all the native fruits gone? A Revival (SVWorld Series)

PUL-OY (Breeze)

San Vicente, Ilocos Sur to the World Series

Where have all the native fruits gone?

A Revival

Dr Abe V Rotor

    

                                    Macopa (Eugenia jambalana), Family Myrtaceae

 

Where have all the native guava gone,

the bats and birds and the young one?

Where have all the sweet nangka gone,

its fruits buried under the ground?

Where have all the old piña gone,

on the upland, sweetened by the sun?

Where have all the red papaya gone,

solo by name, the only tree of a kind?

Where have all the pomegranate gone,

friendly though like the deadly one.

Where have all the pako mango gone,

to cook the finest sinigang?

Where have all the big pomelo gone,

its rind made into jelly and jam?

Where have all the red macopa gone,

the laughing children in its arm?

Where have all the native santol gone,

set aside for a large-seeded one?

Where have all the tall mabolo gone,

sapote and caimito that ripe into tan?

Gone to the genie everyone,

technology’s child becoming man. ~

  

Siniguelas (Spondias purpurea); tiesa (Lucuma nervosa),

  

Atis (Anona squamosa)uava (Psidium guajava); 

native sampaloc (Tamarindus indica)

      

    Native papaya (Carica papaya); Bignay (Antidesma tenuis)

Top left, clockwise: Native saba variety (Musa paradisiaca); 

avocado (Persia americana); camachile (Pithecocobium dulce); 

sineguelas (Spondias purpurea); and duhat or lomboy Ilk 

(Eugenia jambalana) 

             

                             Black sapote (Diospyrus nigra), Family Ebenaceae

                                      

 

Pomegranate (Punica granatum), family Lythraceae; 

camachile (Pithecollobium dulce) Family Leguminusae.

             

Mabolo (Diospyurus blancoi), Family Ebenaceae ~