Planet and Animal life
Forests in the Philippines inclues the banyan, many varieties of palm, trees yielding rubber, and many indigenous trees with extremely hared wood such as apitong, yacal, lauan, camagun, ipil, white and rednarra, and mayapis. Bamboo and cinnamon, clove, and pepper aplants grow wild, as do hundreds of species of orchid, Abaca or Manila herp, is a commercially valuable indigenous plant; its fiber is used in making rope, fextiles, and hats. Mangrove trees and nipa palms grow in coastal swamps.