Most seedlings produced in the mine's nursery include endemic species such as Narra, Tuai, Mayapis, Tanguile, yakal, Guijo,
Kalantas, Kupang, Agoo, Balete, and Alnus.
Eleven of these undersea feature name proposals are associated with Benham Rise Katmon Hill, Yakal Seamount, Mayapos Seamount,
Kalantas Seamount, Mahogany Seamount, East Luzon Trough, Molave Saddle, Molave Spur, Narra Saddle, Narra Spur and Palanan Saddle.
(1) For more on the
Kalanta case, see Amanda Swain, "A Death Transformed: The Political and Social Consequences of Romas
Kalantas Self-immolation, Soviet Lithuania, 1972" (PhD diss., University of Washington, 2013); and Swain, "Hooligans, Hippies, and Immature Youth: Negotiating Communist Party Narratives of May 18, 1972, in Kaunas," Lithuanian Historical Studies 17 (2012): 147-65; Arvydas Anusauskas,"KGB reakcija j 1972 m.
It also startled a school of small brown sparrows out from the thin limbs of nearby
kalantas trees, a synchronized wave of wings.
Softer wood varieties, such as the red Philippine timber, called
kalantas or kalante, are also preferred for their natural fragrance and resistance to woodborers.
kalantas - Philippine timber tree having hard red fragrant wood