Spondias pinnata
ANACARDIACEAE. Indigenous
SIZE: Up to 25m; trunk size 60cm diameter
TYPE: Semi-deciduous
HABITAT: Forests at lowland up to 500m elevation
Pick a libas leaf and it to appease your hunger while waiting for your simmering paksiw dish, soured by libas leaves and its green fruit. If the libas fruit, whetger ripe or sour, reminds you of sineguelas (Spondias purpurea), it is because these two species are siblings, albeit the sineguelas in non-native.