Puerto Galera on the island of Mindoro in the Philippines has a tropical climate with temperatures between 27-30°C. It experiences typhoons between June and October. The area has diverse flora like the fragrant white plumeria and erect shrub pandakaki that are used as anti-inflammatories. The largest native palm is the fan-leaved buri fruit tree. Fauna includes the blue and white sea slug that feeds on sponges, the venomous and camouflaged lionfish that hunts prey rapidly, and the thorny seahorse where males give birth in the western Pacific among soft corals.

1. White beach Puerto Galera

2. Geograpical location geographical coordinates are 13° 30' 0" North, 120° 57' 15" East

3. Climate and precipitation Typhoons passes through this part of the world in periods of stormy weather between June and October. 27°C between November and February, it continues to rise into june and it reaches around mid-30°C

4. Flora Kalachuchi(Plumeria alba) -small tree -can be used as -fragrant antiinflamatory -bears flower Pandakaki(Tabernaemontana lurid) -erect -common at low altitude -smooth shrub –can be used as -1-3 meters high antiinflamatory

5. Buri(Corypha utans) -Largest palm tree in the philippines -large fan shaped leaves -fruits are globose -it is edible

7. Thorny Seahorse(Hippocampus histrix) -feed on tiny swimming n invertebrates -the male gives birth -Western Pacific -lives among sponges and soft corals

8. sources http://www.maplandia.com/philippines/region-4/oriental-mindoro/puerto-galera/ http://www.stuartxchange.org/Kalachuchi.html http://www.stuartxchange.org/Buri.html http://www.stuartxchange.org/PandakakiPuti.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromodoris_lochi http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/lionfish/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Speciessummary.php?id=5954