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Hi Tom,<br><br>
A few more details wound be helpful. Where does the tree grow? Is the
fruit edible?<br><br>
There is a tree called sea mango, also pink-eyed pong pong, <i>Cerbera
manghas</i> L. with a mango-like fruit. In our area (Buton Island) it is
called <i>kapoo-poo</i>, reduplication of the stem <i>poo</i> 'mango'.
Even the specific epithet <i>manghas</i> refers to mangos. The Tagalog
name is <i>baraibai</i>. Some other local names in the Philippines are
listed here:
<a href="http://www.stuartxchange.com/Baraibai.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.stuartxchange.com/Baraibai.html</a><br><br>
David<br><br>
At 4/7/2017 03:13 PM -0700, Tom Payne wrote:<br>
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<font face="Calibri" size=2>Greetings. In Kagayanen, a language of the
Central Philippines, there is a tree and fruit called ‘biid’. All I know
is that “It is a big tree with fruit like manggo.” Does anyone know this
species? Does it have a Latin and/or English name? Thanks for any
help.<br>
Tom Payne<br>
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