Angeles City Grows Sweet Lanzones

Yes, you heard me right Angeles City grows sweet Lanzones. When you talk about Lanzones, you think about Laguna and Camiguin, because these provinces produce commercial and good quality Lanzones. Paete Lanzones from Laguna is considered the native variety in our country as of this date. Lansium Domesticum is the scientific name of Lanzones and two more introduced varieties are Duku from Indonesia and Longkong from Southern Thailand. Anyway maybe your wondering on how the heck Angeles City produces Sweet Lanzones. Iam not kidding but I'll give you a brief history as how Lanzones was cultivated in Angeles City.

It was the year 1850, when Angeles City was still an agricultural growing area producing sugarcane, rice, banana, ebus (buri), corn, cabo negro (sugar palm), tayum (indigo), langis (sesame), gugu, sasa (nipa) and an early settler by the named Don Rafael Nepomuceno brought seedlings of Lanzones that came from Lucban, Tayabas (Quezon) and planted it as a backyard crop until it bore fruits. Angelenos got amazed by this development that whenever they eat Lanzones fruits they plant the seeds at there homes. Actually President Quezon might have loved the lanzones fruits of this town too, if he had stayed here until October, because the Angeles lanzones are sweet, luscious, and have a different appeal to the discriminating taste. Yes, when President Quezon visited Angeles City he heard that Lanzones here was Sweet in his term.

Anyway, there are Lanzones orchards in Angeles City mostly grown from seeds. One famous fruit stall in the boundary on Angeles and San Fernando is Telabastagan, in here you will see hundreds of Lanzones planted near the highway. Every October is the fruiting season here in Angeles City and buy at the Telebastagan fruit stall to taste the sweet Angeles grown Lanzones. Nowadays because of the urbanization of Angeles City, people now grow the Lanzones as a backyard crop. Just notice almost every home has a Lanzones tree planted in it.

In downtown Angeles, you will notice in the old houses in Miranda Street planted are 50 years old aged Lanzones trees and are about 50 feet in height, this is a testament that Lanzones has already been naturalized in this city and is a favorite fruit tree landscape. We should be thanking a rare fruit pioneer by the named Don Rafael Nepomuceno who introduced this fruit and soon others followed. So, the next time you visit Angeles City in October dont forget to drop by Telebastagan fruit stall so that you will believe what Iam saying that Angeles City grows Sweet Lanzones is true. If your interested in growing Lanzones you can visit STARRDEC-LANZONES.