Catalogue: Plants in My Area - Devilish Version
Everything with folkloric or nominal ties to the devil that's actually possible to find around.
Categories inspired by Plants of the Devil by Corinne Boyer.
Legend
(S): Seen
(U): Unsure
(N): Not seen
Nominal
Has names that associate it to the Devil or other wild, demonic, and malevolent entities. Usually overlaps with physical appearance and folklore.
- Ambong / Perennial Indian hemp / Devil's cotton (N)
- Tandang-aso / Devil's fig / Turkey berry / Pea eggplant (S)
- Kandikandilaan / Bastard vervain / Blue snake weed / Devil's coach whip / Worryvine (S)
- Hangod / Prickly chaff flower / Devil's horsewhip (S)
- Golden pothos / Devil's ivy / Taro vine / Silver vine (U)
- Asiatic smartweed / Asiatic tearthumb / Devil's tail / Devil's tail tearthumb / Mile-a-minute knotweed (N)
- Big-leaved macrophyllum / Hard alstonia / Hard milkwood / Devil tree (U)
- Hagonoy / Archangel / Bitterbush / Christmas bush / Common floss flower / Devil weed / Jack in the bush (U)
- Bitter bark / Devil's Tree / Dita / Alstonia / Milkywood pine / Scholar's tree / White cheese wood / Australian fever bark (U)
- Datura / Devil's Trumpet / Angel's trumpet / Thorn apple (S)
- Serpentina / Devil pepper / Indian snakeroot (S)
- Digkit / Pakat-aso / Cockspur / Devil's claw / Thorny pisonia (N)
- Gatbo / Chinese plume grass / Hardy sugarcane / Pinereed grass / Reedy sugarcane / Devil sugarcane (N)
- Solanum / Dead sea apple / Apple of Sodom / Poison berry / Sticky nightshade / Vine of Sodom / Devil's apple
- Sapote / Black persimmon / Ceylon ebony / Chocolate pudding fruit / Devil fruit (N)
- Buli-buli / Big yellow pupbush / Rattleweed / Wedge-leaf rattlepod / Devil bean (S)
- Earpod tree / Monkey soap / Devil's ear (U)
- Malapakpak-balaway / Tabatib / Tampinbanal / Centipede tongavine / Dragon tail plant / Silver vine / Taro vine / Devil's ivy (U)
- Devil's backbone / Luhang-dalaga / Bird cactus / Christmas candle / Slipper spurge / Zigzag plant (S)
- Kawad-kawaran / Malabuhok / Devil's twine / Love vine / Woe vine / Dodder laurel (U)
- Water hyacinth / Beautiful blue devil(U)
- Lipang-aso / Stinging nettle (S)
Folkloric
Relevant to superstition, mythology, or other folk wisdom involving the Devil, etc.
- Balete (S)
- Roses (S)
- Datura / Devil's Trumpet / Angel's trumpet / Thorn apple (S)
- Sapote / Black persimmon / Ceylon ebony / Chocolate pudding fruit / Devil fruit (N)
- Kapok / White silk cotton tree / "Castle of the Devil" (S)
- Solanacea family
- Lipang-aso / Stinging nettle (S)
Features
Thorny
- Roses
- Citrus trees
- Bougainvillea
- Lipang-aso / Stinging nettle
- Makahiya / Bashful mimosa
Poisonous
- Adelfa / Oleander
- Desert rose
- Dumbcane (?)
- Solanacea family in general
- Tobacco
- Lobelia
Colored Black
Misshapen or otherwise unusual
- Balete (S)
Behavior and Ecology
- Balete (S)