04-15-2016, 01:09 PM
Hi bystander, Pua keni keni... meaning '10 Cent Flower' (Fagraea berteriana) is indigenous to Samoa, not Hawaii, but close, ... its been here for many years in gardens thus the Hawaiian name... it is not know to be naturalized here (grow wild).
ps the "save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants..' line at bottom of my posts is on all posts, sorry for confusion, none of the plants, including the Tabebuias, on this post are actually native here.
the closest native plant to Fagraea berteriana, in same family Gentianaceae, is an endangered endemic small (less than 1' tall) annual herb call 'Awiwi (Centaurium sebaeiodes), but is not found on the Big Island, its only been listed in the past to have been known from Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, and WestMaui, and is very rare today.
there are no native plants related to the posts topic, the pink flowered Tabebuia sp., or even in same family, the Bignoniaceae family. But there are a few naturalized slightly invasive non-native trees in same family found here ie the African Tulip Tree (first seen in HI in 1871), Yellow Elder, and the blue flowered tree seen wild in dry hot Kona side called Jacaranda (first seen in HI in 1900)
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
ps the "save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants..' line at bottom of my posts is on all posts, sorry for confusion, none of the plants, including the Tabebuias, on this post are actually native here.
the closest native plant to Fagraea berteriana, in same family Gentianaceae, is an endangered endemic small (less than 1' tall) annual herb call 'Awiwi (Centaurium sebaeiodes), but is not found on the Big Island, its only been listed in the past to have been known from Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, and WestMaui, and is very rare today.
there are no native plants related to the posts topic, the pink flowered Tabebuia sp., or even in same family, the Bignoniaceae family. But there are a few naturalized slightly invasive non-native trees in same family found here ie the African Tulip Tree (first seen in HI in 1871), Yellow Elder, and the blue flowered tree seen wild in dry hot Kona side called Jacaranda (first seen in HI in 1900)
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
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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