Here's how I remember the legend.....

There was two lovers who truely loves its other. The problem is, the young girls parents doesn't like their daughters nobyo (boyfriend.) Let's just give a name, Riwata,  to the girl since I can't remember her name. They believed that their daughter deserves someone else that has the ability to give her a better life. Her boyfriend is just simply a peasant for their daughter and they don't like it.

They have done almost all they could think of to break the two lovers but it won't work, the two really loves each other. But there's one more last way they are willing to try, the mangkukulam (witch) that they know lives on a nearby village. And yes, they went to the witch with the wish to turn their daughters lover into something else where he couldn't get near their daughter anymore.

A stormy weather came, rains falling, which cause flooding and Riwata came looking for her beloved man but he couldn't find him. What he found swimming toward her direction on the flooded water is a bulate (brown worm: found on Philippine soil) and to her surprised it spoke to her, telling her to bury it where it can still watch over here, more like this,

"My loved, your parents had wish to a witch to turn me into this. My last wish is for you to bury me somewhere near you so I could still see you and watch over you even after my death." And so she did take and buried it alongside their nipa hut.

After few weeks where she had buried the bulate , sprouted a strange plant she had never seen before. She believes it is her beloved boyfriend and she took great care of the plant, watering it everyday. The plant soon turned into a straight, tall tree and when she pick one of its fruit she had noticed the two eyes and the mouth seems like looking at her and symbolizes a human head. Yes, she believes it was her love, even after death he's watching over her.