04-01-2014, 07:36 AM
Banyan are fig/ficus
all the ficus trees here grow big, and way too easily from cutting left on ground or root suckers (we dont have the natural pollinators for most species to make seed)
much of that crap between and along the hwy going to Hilo is Small Leaf Banyan... the wild graygreen small leaf tree with light gray bark, overhanging roads in HPP and between and along the hwy from Keaau to Hilo are all ficus sp. trees, a small leaf banyan... people just dont notice it that much because they think its just "More Ohia"
not as bad as albizia, but it will be a problem in years to come in HPP, same with the autograph trees (both climb and kill native Ohia)
PS.
(from the book 'Common Forest Trees of Hawaii')
Chinese Banyan
Ficus microcarpa
'Champion' Biggest trees of species in Hawaii
Height 104 ft (31.7 m), c.b.h. 90.1 ft (27.5 m), spread
195 ft (59.4 m). Keaau Village, Puna, Hawaii (1968).
This banyan with trunks and air roots grown together
has the greatest trunk circumference and greatest crown
spread of all Hawaiian champions.
(45 yrs later its prob bigger... its the tree across the road from Keaau HS)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficus
http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/forestry/tre...ocarpa.pdf
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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
all the ficus trees here grow big, and way too easily from cutting left on ground or root suckers (we dont have the natural pollinators for most species to make seed)
much of that crap between and along the hwy going to Hilo is Small Leaf Banyan... the wild graygreen small leaf tree with light gray bark, overhanging roads in HPP and between and along the hwy from Keaau to Hilo are all ficus sp. trees, a small leaf banyan... people just dont notice it that much because they think its just "More Ohia"
not as bad as albizia, but it will be a problem in years to come in HPP, same with the autograph trees (both climb and kill native Ohia)
PS.
(from the book 'Common Forest Trees of Hawaii')
Chinese Banyan
Ficus microcarpa
'Champion' Biggest trees of species in Hawaii
Height 104 ft (31.7 m), c.b.h. 90.1 ft (27.5 m), spread
195 ft (59.4 m). Keaau Village, Puna, Hawaii (1968).
This banyan with trunks and air roots grown together
has the greatest trunk circumference and greatest crown
spread of all Hawaiian champions.
(45 yrs later its prob bigger... its the tree across the road from Keaau HS)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficus
http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/forestry/tre...ocarpa.pdf
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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
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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
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