Natural growth samplings found at Mount Malindig, the island's highest peak at 1,157 meters. The first 952 meter ascent has been almost cleared of endemic plants and trees by original settlers and now planted to vegetable plants and coconuts.
Wild boar, monkeys and deer have been driven away in what was reputed to be the late President Manuel L. Quezon's favorite hunting ground. Only the final 200 meter challenging ascent is where biodiversity still thrives as shown here.
If by chance you make it there, be still and know that you have not come to destroy or take away anything, not the wild orchids especially.
This is Marinduque's last bastion of life and hope, and it is not uncommon to hear stories that local sorcerers travel there when the moon is full to rendezvous with underworld creatures. Therefore keep it sacred, leaving behind only thine footprints as true nature-lovers only do.
Growth along the roadside in Marinduque's interiors, such as Hinapulan. Various species of ferns that spread by vegetative growth thrive in abandon. Certain fern types are said to tolerate high levels of arsenic and believed to be doing a natural good in the environment by sucking out toxicity out of some contaminated soils and waters.
Foliage jutting out of rocks at the exterior section of Bathala Caves in barangay Ipil, north of the island. But inside the caves it is natural for spelunkers to encounter pythons jutting out of the rocks instead.
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