Bagbagkong is an Ilokano term, for the plant that looks like a weed, sprouting at the onset of the rainy season. It is native to Nueva Vizcaya. It could be mistaken for grass, if not for the tiny bell-like flowers with a pale green to almost white hue. Some have pinkish to lavender streaks along the edges of the blooms, which sprout in clumps.
photo cut from bucaio.blogspot.com
Filipinos use bagbagkong in cooking with:
1. squash
2. tinola
3. dinengdeng.
4. pinakbet.
Or as garnishing with favorite vegetables.
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I saw this beside rambutan plant. Mother-in-law confirmed its bagbagkong. I never thought this plant grows here in Cavite.
Telosema cordata is sabidukong or tonkin jasmine also known as mileguas
Dregea volubilis is bagbangkong or ampupuyat or cotton milk vine
Telosoma cordata – Sabidukong, Mileguas, tonkin jasmine
Dregea Volubilis – ampupuyat, bagbagkong, green wax flower, cotton milk plant
Got a couple of bagbagcong vine that i planted on our yard last 2005 and it now give as enough inabraw each time it flowers and bears fruit. You can see the photos on my FB mobile uploads.
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Hi, We are trying to find the English for this (Bagbagkong) to see if we can get seeds in the US. It looks like it is identified as Ampupuyat and Dregea Volubilis in a paper from ASIST 2006, however the pictures we find for Dregea Volubilis do not look like Bagbagkong. Can anyone help with this? Thank you very much!
The appropriate name is Tonkin Jasmine. Compare the pictures on the net..
i am a researcher and at present is conducting research on the documentation and mass propagation of indigenous vegetables. one is bagbagkong. I have several pictures from seedling till flowering and harvesting of flowers and the dried pods. I have already seeds of it as it is my objective in my research to produce seeds of these indigenous vegetables. the dried pods is really beautiful and 1 pod produces from 250 to 300 fine papery seeds with cottony structure at one end to help the seeds fly away to a far distance maybe even a kilometer.
Thanks! It’s very interesting. Hope I can get seeds and plant it too. Sadly, brother killed the one and only vine we had!
Hi!
I am looking for bagbagkong. You said that you have this vegetable in your place, Cavite. DO you still have bagbagkong? I am willing to pay.
Thanks!
I only see one vine here. It is not enough for your needs.