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Candle Bush - shave_ice - 03-18-2017
Senna alata – Emperor's Candlesticks
Does anyone grow this or know if it grows wild somewhere. Looking for a source.
Here is a picture and info about it:
http://wildlifeofhawaii.com/flowers/996/senna-alata-emperors-candlesticks/
RE: Candle Bush - Lodestone - 03-18-2017
There are a couple on a vacant lot in Hawaiian Shores on Puna Makai Loop South... on the south side of the road, somewhere around Nehu street (or thereabouts). I tried growing a couple of cuttings from them, but it's been so dry... good to know what their name is.
RE: Candle Bush - leilaniguy - 03-18-2017
I used to see it growing wild on my way uphill to Leilani from town, just a couple hundred feet above and across from the school ball playing fields.
RE: Candle Bush - bananahead - 03-19-2017
if you want to save the real Hawaii, try the indigenous Senna thats native to Hawaii.. Senna gaudichaudii
its called 'Kolomona' in Hawaiian
Candlebush is an invasive species...
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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
RE: Candle Bush - shave_ice - 03-20-2017
Thanks for the suggestions leilani guy and Lodestone. I will check out those places.
I realize its invasive. I'm not interested in planting it, I want to try it for its medicinal purposes, thus trying to find somewhere where it is already growing.