Bogo City's BOGO TREE

Photo by Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. 

BOGO TREE 

Exploratory Name 

Garuga floribunda Decne 

Physical Characteristics 

The bogotree is a little to medium-sized or, every so often, genuinely substantial tree up to 30 meters tall. 

Bogo Leaves 

The bole is typically straight, tube shaped, and branchless, and up to 120 centimeters in breadth. Its braces are up to three meters high. 

The bark surface has following scales that are dark or dim white in shading; its inward bark is rubbery and pink. 

Leaves are organized spirally, swarmed at the zenith of twigs, and with handouts. 

Blossoms are in an axillary panicle, promiscuous, with a copular container. The sepals are free. The petals have inflexed tips. The stamens are embedded on the edge of the repository. The ovary is unrivaled, five locular with two ovules in every cell. 

The natural product is a beefy, blue drupe with one to five one-seeded pyrenes. 

Areas 

Bogo tree happens in occasional atmospheres in essential and auxiliary, frequently intermittently in dry or extremely dry storm woods and shrubberies and in lower montane rainforests. It is additionally found in waterfront and teak woodlands. 

Bogo tree is not heat proof and can endure an occasionally high groundwater table. It is found on limestone slopes, and becomes on stony, sandy or clayey soils. 

It can likewise be found in northern Luzon to Palawan and Mindanao in shrubberies and optional woodlands at low and medium heights. It is no place plentiful. 

Bogo Trunk 

Technique for Propagation 

Bogo tree can be proliferated by seeds. 

Tree Management 

Blooms show up before the new takes off. When all is said in done, blossoming is toward the end of the dry season or the start of the stormy season. 

Customary Uses 

The bark is utilized for local solution. A decoction of the bark has been given after labor. Bark together with sambulawan is utilized to treat nuka (scabies or irritation), hubag (bubbles, boil, or aggravation) and ap-ap (a skin sickness that causes depigmentation creating unpredictable whitish spots). 

Contemporary Uses 

The wood of the bogo tree is utilized for general development, extension building, posts, light obligation deck, furniture and bureau work, inside trim, moldings, racking, evading, donning merchandise, rural executes, boxes and boxes, carvings, toys and curiosities, and turnery. It is likewise utilized for the creation of finish and plywood. Timber is somewhat great, modestly hard, and substantial; in the ground, it clearly rots gradually. The leaves are utilized for grain. A decoction of the leaves has been utilized to color mats produced using Corypha leaves dark. The bogo tree is at times planted as a shade tree. The natural product is consumable. 

Step by step instructions to plant your bogo seedling 

Clear the range where you need to plant your seedling with undesirable weeds and flotsam and jetsam. Verify that an one-meter sweep is kept free from other vegetation. Burrow a plant opening with measurements of no less than 20 cm x 20 cm x 20 cm. Plant the seedling at fitting profundity. Root neckline ought to be at level with or a little underneath the ground surface with the seedling focused upward. Fill the gap with top or greenhouse soil and press soil solidly around the base of the seedling. In ranch making, seedlings ought to keep up a two-meter separation between seedlings if planted in succession of a three-meter separation starting with one strip then onto the next strip. 

The most effective method to deal with your bogo seedling 

Uproot grass and other undesirable vegetation and develop the dirt around the base of the seedling (50 cm range) once in every quarter for a few years. Spot mulch around the base of the seedling (keeping up the 50 cm range and utilizing cut grass, leaves, and other suitable materials as mulch base). Prune the branches at most 50 percent of the crown profundity, ideally amid dry season, and guarantee that when pruning, you don't harm the bark. Uproot tainted or invaded vegetation adjacent to prevent plant ailments from spreading and debasing your seedling. Screen frequently the development of the seedling for vicinity of vermin and ailments.