Mixed fruit trees in rural Basay. In Basay, a small town at the island’s southern tip, on the boundary between the provinces. Backyard and smallholder fruit rather than commercial orchards — mango, guava, santol, duhat, rambutan, calamansi depending on the month. What’s piled at roadside stalls at any given time is what’s actually ripe nearby, which is the plainest way to read the season.