CLASSIFICATION

OF BOTANICAL CROPS
 Republic of the Philippines
University of Southeastern Philippines
Tagum-Mabini Campus
Mabini, Compostela Valley

In Partial fulfillment of the

Requirements in Crop Science III

Submitted to: Mr. Recto, Rosalino B.

Submitted by: Dapitanon, Jhanno E.

AGRONOMI
C CROPS
Family: Brassicaceae

Scientific Name: Brassica napus var. napus

Common Name: Canola

Description: Erect annual or biennial plant, normally

700 to 1500 mm tall with branching stems, yellow
flowers in spring and globular black seed in a cylindrical
pod. The basal leaves are usually blue-green, stalked,
and lobed, form a loose rosette and the lower leaves
may be somewhat bristly. The stem leaves are smaller
and usually not lobed. They have white to yellow (or
occasionally pink to mauve) flowers with 4 petals each
11-14 mm long and 6 stamens.

Family: Malvaceae

Scientific Name: Gossypium spp.

Common Name: Cotton

Description: A tropical perennial plant, ranges from 6 to

12 feet tall and equally as wide at maturity. Leaves look
like heart with pointed lobes. Deep green in color and
has a fuzzy texture. Flowers are hibiscus-like, five-
petaled and a creamy white or yellow in color and
pollinated by insects. Each flowering branch supports six
to eight blooms

Family: Leguminosae

Scientific Name: Glycine max

Common Name: Soybean

Description: An annual herbaceous plant. Leaves are

compound, with 3 leaflets. The fruit is a broad, hairy,
flattened legume or pod, around 10 cm (3 in) long,
yellow to brown when fully mature and dried. Pods
typically contain up to 4 beans, which vary in size and
color depending on cultivar (colors range from white to
reddish to black).
Family: Poaceae/Graminae

Scientific Name: Oryza sativa L.

Common Name: Rice

Description: Erect annual grass, to 1.2 m tall. The stem is

upright and composed of a series of joint-like nodes, with a
leaf growing from each node. The seeds (or grain) grow on
branch-like spikes which arch over. Can be planted in
upland, lowland and paddy field.

Family: Graminae (Poaceae)

Scientific Name: Zea mays

Common Name: Corn

Description: A tall monecious annual grass. The body

consists nodes and internodes. culms stout, often with prop
roots from the lower nodes, many-noded, terminated by
inflorescences of male spikelets (tassel), and with one or
more female spikelets (ears) in the axils of leaves below the
tassel; leafblades expanded, usually drooping, usually green,
but may be variegated white, yellow or purple-red .

Family: Amaranthaceae

Scientific Name: Beta vulgaris

Common Name: Sugar Beets

Description: Is an annual or biennial herbaceous plant.

Producing a rosette of leaves from a swollen rootstock. It
grows around 60cm tall. A red to purple fleshy spherical or
elongated root and is used as a root vegetable.
Family: Poaceae

Scientific Name: Sorghum bicolor

Common Name: Sorghum

Description: An annual or perennial grass grown primarily

for its grain. Sorghum has an erect solid stem with one or
more tillers and curving leaves which are arranged
alternately on the stems and are lance-like in shape,
measuring 30–135 cm (12–53 in) in length.

Family: Poaceae

Scientific Name: Triticum aestivum

Common Name: Wheat

Description: Annual or biennial grasses grown primarily

for their grain. Wheat species possess an erect smooth
stem with linear leaves that grow in two rows on
either side of the stem with larger 'flag' leaves at the
top of the stem.

Family: Poaceae

Scientific Name: Coix lacryma-jobi

Common Name: Adlai/Job's Tears

Description: Perennial grass in tropical or subtropical

environments. Leaves are linear or lanceolate with an entire
leaf margin and a pointed apex (1.5 - 4 cm wide, 20 - 50 cm
long). This species is a monocotyledon, so it lacks petioles,
but has leaf sheaths and parallel venation. Stem is round
and herbaceous. Flowers are monoecious; the hollow, bead-
like structure is known as an involucres. The grain remains
inside the involucre. The involucre is initially green,
gradually becomes black and then becomes gray to white.
PLANTATIO
N CROPS
Family: Poaceae

Scientific Name: Bambusa vulgaris

Common Name: Bamboo

Description: Large bamboo forming erect clumps up to

20 m tall. Leaves are lance-shaped with a rough leaf
margin (30 cm long, 4 cm wide). About 8-9 leaves are
arranged along each branch. Young leaves are bright
Family: Asparagaceae
yellow, eventually turning green and then brown.
Aboveground
Scientific Name: stems
Agave aresisalana
known as culms and grow up to
4-10 cm wide. The underground part of the stem is
known asName:
Common a rhizome.
Sisal Florets are arranged in oblong,
flattened spikelets (1-2 cm long). Each spikelet contains
Description: The plant stalk grows to about 90 cm (3
4-12 fertile florets.
feet) in height, with a diameter of approximately 38 cm
(15 inches). The lance-shaped leaves, growing out from
the stalk in a dense rosette, are fleshy and rigid, with
Family: Malvaceae
gray to dark green colour. Each is 60–180 cm (2–6 feet)
long and 10–18
Scientific Name: cm (4–7 inches)
Theobroma cacaoacross at the widest
portion, terminating in a sharp spine. Yellow flowers,
about
Common 6 cm (2.5 Cocoa,
Name: inches)Cacao
long and with an unpleasant
odour, form dense clusters at the ends of branches
Description:
growing from Dark greenstalk.
the flower leaves are shiny, leathery, egg-
shaped or elliptic in shape. Flowers are small, yellowish
white to pale pink, and grouped together in clusters
Family:
arising Asteraceae
directly from the trunk (cauliflory). The fruit is an
egg-shaped red Blumea
Scientific Name: to brownbalsamifera
berry, 15 to 25 cm long, with a
more or less knobby surface and lines from top to
Common
bottom. Name: Nagi Camphor/Sambong/Gabon
Description: Softly hairy, half woody, strongly aromatic
shrub, 1-4 meters (m) high. Simple, alternate, broadly
elongated leaves, 7-20 cm long, with toothed margin
and appendage
Family: Arecaceaeor divided base. Loose yellow flower
head scattered along much-branched leafy panicles.
Scientific
Two typesName: Cocos
of discoid nucifera
flowers: peripheral ones tiny, more
numerous, with tubular corolla; central flowers few,
Common
large with Name: Coconut
campanulate corolla.
Description: Monocot perennial tree, cultivated in
tropical areas. Inflorescences spreading, cream to
yellow, arising from within the lower fronds. Fronds
Family: Bixaceae
pinnate, yellowish-green to dark green, ascending to
spreadingName:
Scientific to drooping, bearing 80 to 100 pairs of
Bixa orellana
leaflets that taper to a split tip. Fruits ovoid, ripening
Common
from lightName:
green Lipstick
or yellowtree/Asuete
to brown, consisting of a
smooth outer skin, a fibrous
Description: The leaves of the huskplant
and aare
hardy woody
ovate with a
shell; seed
round, has a narrow,
heart-shaped white
base andlayer
a ofpointed
flesh and filled
tip. The
petioles (leaf stalks) are swollen at both the base and
with water.
apex. The flowers may be white, pink, or purple. The
fruit capsules are bi-valved (i.e. with two halves that fit
together) and covered with soft bristles. Upon ripening,
Family: Rubiaceae
they split open to reveal numerous reddish-orange
seeds.
Scientific Name: Coffea spp.

Common Name: Coffee

Description: A woody perennial plant with a glossy,

deep green, elliptic-ovate, wavy-edged leaves. A short-
day plant, blooming mostly at night time. Flowers are
white sweet scented, star-shaped flower in the leaf axils.
Family: Malvaceae

Scientific Name: Ceiba pentandra

Common Name: Silk Cotton Tree/Kapok

Description: The tree grows to 70 m (230 ft.) with a trunk up

to 3 m (10 ft.) in diameter with buttresses. The trunk and
many of the larger branches are often crowded with large
simple thorns. The palmate leaves are composed of 5 to 9
leaflets, each up to 20 cm (8 in) long. The trees produce
several hundred 15 cm (6 in) pods containing seeds
surrounded by a fluffy, yellowish fibre that is a mix of lignin
and cellulose.

Family: Combretaceae

Scientific Name: Combretum indicum

Common Name: Rangoon Creeper

Description: A perennial shrub vine plant. Leaves opposite

or almost opposite, blade elliptical or oblong elliptical,
densely short hairy. Flowers at the axillary spike, star-shaped
flower and petals are oblong, becoming white, pink then red
to dark red. Plant is used as a herbal medicine.

Family: Euphorbiaceae

Scientific Name: Ricinus communis

Common Name: Castor bean

Description: Evergreen glabrous, soft-woody shrub or small

tree, often grown as annual, 1-5 m tall, with a strong tap-
root and prominent lateral roots. Leaves spirally arranged,
dark green when old, sometimes red in color depend on the
variety. Panicles erect, usually glaucous, with unisexual
flowers, male flowers towards the base, female ones
towards the top. Flowers shortly pedicelled in lateral cymes,
usually soft spiny. Fruits ellipsoid to subglobose, 15-25 mm
long, brown, spiny or smooth.
Family: Lamiaceae

Scientific Name: Mentha canadensis

Common Name: Japanese mint

Description: Corn mint is an erect, perennial plant producing

a clump of annual stems 60 - 100cm tall from rapidly
spreading, underground rhizomes. Leaves are tiny and
produces a minty scent. The flowers are white can be seen
around the lateral and terminal bud. Is the only species of
mint with forms that are truly adapted to tropical areas. It is
harvested from the wild, whilst selected forms are often
cultivated both in the home garden and commercially, as a
medicine, food and flavouring.

Family: Lauraceae

Scientific Name: Cinnamomum verum

Common Name: Cinnamon

Description: Tree grows to around 10 m (30 ft), and has

leathery leaves, usually opposite, that are lanceolate to
ovate, 11 to 16 cm (4.5 to 6.25 in) long, with pointed tips.
The inconspicuous yellow flowers, which are tubular with 6
lobes, grow in panicles (clusters) that are as long as the
leaves. The fruit is a small, fleshy berry, 1 to 1.5 cm (0.25 to
0.5 in) long, that ripens to black, partly surrounded by a cup-
like perianth.

Family: Lythraceae

Scientific Name: Lagerstroemia speciosa

Common Name: Banaba/Queen of flowers

Description: A perennial shrub to large tree with multiple

trunks or stems diverging from just above ground level, up
to 40 m tall and 100 cm in diameter. Leaves opposite,
distichous, simple, entire, stipules minute or absent. Flowers
in a large, axillary or terminal panicle, often showy, calyx
funnel or bell shaped, 6 lobed, petals often 6, inserted near
the mouth of the calyx tube, white to pink or purple,
clawed, wrinkled, stamens many, in several rows, ovary
superior, 3-6 locular with many ovules in each cell. Fruit a
large woody capsule on the persistent calyx. Seed with an
apical wing.
Family: Musaceae

Scientific Name: Musa textilis

Common Name: Abaca/Manila hemp

Description: A perennial plant with a fleshy, watery stem

made up of large, spirally arranged, overlapping leaf bases
called sheaths. The plant stands erect, 1.5-6 m tall and the
stem has a diameter of up to 30 cm at the base. Leaves are
1-2 m long and up to 60 cm wide. Fruits may be 10-25 cm
long, green, yellow or brown, cylindric or angled, and
seeded or seedless. The fruit is inedible.

Family: Orchidiaceae

Scientific Name: Vanilla planifolia

Common Name: Vanilla

Description: Flavouring agent extracted from their pods.

Vanilla had a long, fleshy climbing stem that attaches to
trees by aerial rootlets. Flowers are from pale green to
yellow then creamy white. Because of their dainty structure,
the blossoms can be naturally pollinated only by certain
small bees; in areas outside of the pollinators’ range, the
flowers are pollinated artificially with a wooden needle as
soon as they open. Fruit is a long capsule, full length of
20cm (8 inches).

Family: Piperaceae

Scientific Name: Piper nigrum

Common Name: Black pepper

Description: Perennial climbing vine and the hotly pungent

spice made from its fruits. A woody climber and may reach
heights of 10 metres (33 feet) by means of its aerial roots.
Its broad shiny green leaves are alternately arranged. The
small flowers are in dense slender spikes of about 50
blossoms each. The fruits, which are sometimes called
peppercorns, are drupes about 5 mm (0.2 inch) in diameter.
They become yellowish red at maturity and bear a single
seed.
Family: Verbenaceae

Scientific Name:Vitex negundo

Common Name: Five-leave Chaste/Lagundi

Description: A five-leaved chaste tree Opposite,

compound palmate grayish green leaves; 3-7 leaflets;
tormentors below. Fragrant, small blue-purple, lilac, or
lavender flowers in loose clusters on 5-8 in. panicles in
summer on new growth. Loosely branched and an open
vase-shaped shrub or small tree

Family: Zingiberaceae

Scientific Name: Curcuma lobga

Common Name: Turmeric

Description: An upright, perennial herb to about 1 m tall.

The rhizome (underground stem) is thick and ringed with
the bases of old leaves. Turmeric only reproduces via its
rhizomes. Large, oblong, up to 1 m long, dark green on
upper surface, pale green beneath. Each leafy shoot
(pseudostem) bearing 8-12 leaves. Yellow-white, borne on
a spike-like stalk 10-15 cm long. Flowers are sterile and do
not produce viable seed.

Family: Arecaceae
Scientific Name: Arenga pinnata
Common Name: Sugar Palm

Definition: A perennial plant, single-stemmed,

unarmed, monoecious feather palm growing 7 - 20
metres tall. The unbranched stem can be 30 - 65cm
in diameter; it is clothed near the top with the
fibrous sheaths of dead leaves; and topped by a
crown of large leaves. Fruit a globose to ellipsoid
drupe, 5–8 cm long, fleshy, first green, later turning
yellow and black after falling, 2- to 3-seeded. Seed
black.
FRUIT
CROPS
 Family: Mosaceae

Scientific Name: Artocarpus altilis

Common Name: Breadfruit

Description: Monoecious tree, up to 30 m tall,

evergreen in the humid tropics, semi-deciduous in
monsoon climates. Leaves alternate, ovate to elliptical
Family: Anacardiaceae
in outline, undivided when young, older ones entire or
deeply pinnately cut into 5-11-pointed
occidentale lobes, thick,
Family:Scientific
Annonaceae Name: Anacardium
leathery, dark green and shiny above, pale green and
Common
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muricata
inflorescence, cylindrical to globose, 10-30 cm in
Common Description:
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diameter, Ayellow-green,
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breadfruit
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Description:
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assumes is adistorted
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cm apart.blade is dull green with green veins. Flowers
Family: Anacardiaceae
monoecious occuring at the ends of branches, unlike
Family:breadfruit,
Annonaceae the individual flowers do not fuse together
Scientific Name: Mangifera indica
along their length. Fruit is a large fleshy syncarp, oval or
Scientific
ovoid,Name:
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7-12Name:
cm inMango squamosa
diameter and the skin dull green to
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Common Name:flexible,
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Description: Herbaceous plant up to 3.6 m tall. Large,
or purple
alternately
Family: arranged leaves (10 to 15 cm long and 5 to 8
Anacardiaceae
solid green leaves are oval-shaped with a light green or
cm wide)
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midvein. The inflorescence hangs down vertically.
Scientific
blades have Name: Spondiasand
entire margins purpurea
may be oblong to oval or
Male and female flowers occur within the same
Scientific
narrow. Name: Durio zibethinus
Common Name:
inflorescence withPurple Mombinoccurring at the tip. The
male flowers
Family:
Common Moraceae
Name:
fleshy fruitDurian
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Description: A perennial tropical plant that has a
has a sweet,
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it reaches even
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Scientific
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segments when ripe, exposing the creamy whitish, yellowish or
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completely
length of wall.
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horizontally or obliquely from the trunk. The individual
flowers are white to yellowish-white in color and are
VEGETABLE
CROPS
Family:
Family:Liliaceae/Amaryllidaceae
Cucurbitaceae
Leguminosae
Amaranthaceae

Scientific
ScientificName:
Name:Asparagus
Sechium
Cajanus
Amaranthus
cajan
edule
officinalis
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CommonName:
Name:Asparagus
Chayote/Sayote
Pigeon
Chinese
Pea/Kadios
Spinach/Kulitis

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Family:Gramineae/Poaceae
Family: Araceae
Family: Malvaceae
ScientificName:
Scientific Name:Cymbopogon
Colocasia esculenta citratus
Family: Leguminosae
Scientific Name: Abelmoschus esculentus
CommonName:
Common Name:LemonGabi Grass/Tanglad
Scientific Name: Vigna unguiculata
Common Name: Lady’s Finger/Okra
Description: Perennial,
Description: An aromatic, glabrous, herb growing
evergreen, to a height of
clump-forming,
Common Name: Yard-long Bean/Sitao
1 m or more,
perennial grass
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Description:
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often glabrous,
length that contains
each bearing numerous stipples.ovalThe dark-coloured
flowers are
downward. Inflorescences axillary, spathe fleshy, the tube
perfect
seeds.
green, the blade lanceolate, not much wider thanper
and zygomorphic, with 2-6 flowers axillary
the tube.
Family: Euphorbiaceae
raceme. The fruit is a long legume usually up to 30cm
long and 1cm
Scientific Name: wide bearingesculenta
Manihot 10-15 seeds each.

Common Name: Cassava/Kamoteng Kahoy

Family: Araceae
Description
Family: Moringaceae
: A perennial woody cassava shrub may
Scientific
grow
Family: to Name:
Leguminosae
2.75 Xanthomonas
m tall, with leaves sagittifolium
deeply divided into 3–7
Scientific Name: Moringa oleifera
lobes.
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plant is also medicinally used to treat
CommonName:
Common Yautia/Taro tetragonolobus
Name:Horseradish/Malunggay
Name:
hypertension, headache, and other pains, irritable
Common
Description Name: Winged is bean/Seguidilyas
Description
bowel : : Moringa
syndrome A and a small
fever.
glabrous, erect, toherb
medium
up toevergreen or
2 m tall,
deciduous
Description
acaulescent tree that
:when can grow
Herbaceous
young, toperennial.
a height
mature plantsofwith
10-12
a m.
A climber Moringa
thick, that
erect,
leaves
fleshy are
grows - alternate,
3stem,
4 m these tripinnately
in height.with Leavescompound
numerous leafwith
are green each
scars,
and pinnate
the base
trifoliate,
bearing
enlarged, 4-6 pairs
ovoid, of leaflets
producing that are
lateral, dark green,
elongated
compound leaves each consisting of 3 leaflets. Leaflets elliptical
subterranean,to
obovate.
edible The inflorescences
tubers or corms. areseveral,
Leaves spreading panicles
nearly in a bearingin
rosette
large and ovate or deltoid. Pea-like flowers classified as
many fragrantplants,
acaulescent flowers.or inMoringa
a distalflowers
crown are pentamerous,
in mature plants;
papilionaceous are usually light blue, but occasionally
zygomorphic, 7-14 mm long and white to cream in
blades horizontal to slightly nodding, with the posterior lobes color. The
white.
Family:
fruit
Fruits
Leguminosae
is a typically
are
3-valved
elongated pods and square
capsule, 10 to 60 cm in length, often
or
ascending, dark green in color.
rectangular
referred to asin cross-section.
a “pod” and lookingFrilly
like or sometimes smooth
a drumstick.
Scientific
wings Name: Pachyrrhizus
protrude along the length erosusof the pod at each
corner.
Common Name: Yam bean/Singkamas
Family: Solanaceae
Description: A perennial vine but is typically grown as
Family: Basellaceae
Scientific Name: Solanum melongena
an annual, since the plant is killed during the harvest.
ScientificName:
Common Name:Eggplant/Talong
Basella rubra
The compound leaves are deep green and feature three
Family:
leaflets.Leguminosae
Description: TheErect,
flowers are herb
branching blueup or white
to 1.5 and
m tall. A
Common Name: Ceylon Spinach
produce legume
perennialName:
Scientific fruits,
plant Sesbania though they
which is grandiflora are usually removed
commonly grown as annual.
Description:
to promote Short-lived
tuber which perennial
growth. creeping or climbing
Having hairy leaves are The
ovateplant’s irregularly
to ovate-oblong.
vine
Commonwith stems
Name: up to 2-6 m long. Leaves are ovate to
globular
The flowers areAgati
brown-skinned Sesbania/Katuray
purple,tubers are white-fleshed,
funnel-shaped, havingcrisp,
5-6
cordate
and (egg-shaped to heart-shaped) with a slightly
juicy.lobes
pointed
Description: which form aperennial,
A fast-growing star-like shape. Theorfruit,
wavy leaf margin. They have a thick deciduous
cuticle. The plant
known as legume
evergreen berry, grows
tree, upuptoto10-15
40 cm long The
m high. andleaves,
20 cm
forms runners which take root and form new plants.
wide.
up to 30It cm
maybe egg-shaped,
long, are elongated with
pinnately compound or round
20-50 to