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Hawa or Koolau Range cheesewood PittosporaceaeEndemic to the Hawaiian IslandsOahu (Cultivated)The wood was used in making gunwales for canoes by early Hawaiians. Medicinally, the outer layer of the fruit valves of hawa (Pittosporum spp.) were used. They were pounded and used externally on sores.NPH00014
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Th Trn Tam o, Vinh Phuc, Vietnam
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Hawa, HawaPittosporaceaeEndemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Lnai, Maui, and from Klauea around the leeward side to the Kohala Mountains on Hawaii Island)IUCN: VulnerableOahu (Cultivated)The early Hawaiians used the wood to make gunwales for canoes (waa).Medicinal, the outer layer of the fruit valves of hawa (Pittosporum spp.) were pounded and used externally on sores.
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New South Wales, Australia
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Hawa Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Oahu, Lnai, Maui, Hawaii Island)Uncommonkahanui Gulch, Waianae Mountains, OahuEarly Hawaiians used the wood in making gunwales for canoes. Medicinally, the outer layer of the fruit valves of hawa (Pittosporum spp.) were used. They were pounded and used externally on sores.EtymologyThe generic name Pittosporum is derived from the Greek pittos, pitch, and sporos, seed, in reference to the film of viscid resin covering the black seeds.The specific epithet confertiflorum is derived from the Latin confertus, dense or crowded, and flora, flowers.
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Townsville, Queensland, Australia
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Hawa or Royal cheesewoodPittosporaceaeEndemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Kauai only)IUCN: EndangeredOahu (Cultivated)Here growing with other native Hawaiian trees: Lehua hihi (Metrosideros tremuloides), Kauila (Colubrina oppositifolia), and Iliau (Wilkesia gymnoxiphium).Male flowers on tree. Very fragrant at night and in the early morning.The wood was used in making gunwales for canoes by early Hawaiians. Medicinally, the outer layer of the fruit valves of hawa (Pittosporum spp.) were used. They were pounded and used externally on sores.
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Mullumbimby, New South Wales, Australia
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Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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Hawa or Kona cheesewoodPittosporaceae (Pittosporum family)Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Kohala Mountains south to the Ka District, Hawaii Island)Oahu (Cultivated)The Hawaiian crow, or alal, (Corvus tropicus) fed on this hawa, attracted by the bright orange inside color of the ripe fruit capsules and dark seeds and thus ensuring the spread of the plants. However, alal are now extremely rare and populations of hawa in the birds former range are becoming very scarce as a result. This is a classic example of how interdependent native Hawaiian plants and animals are in the natural ecosystem.The early Hawaiians used the wood to make gunwales for canoes. The outer layer of the fruit valves were used medicinally. They were pounded and used externally on sores.Flowers
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www.flickr.com/photos/dweickhoff/5188406532/in/photolist-...EtymologyThe generic name Pittosporum is derived from the Greek pittos, pitch, and sporos, seed, in reference to the film of viscid resin covering the black seeds.The specific epithet hosmeri is named in honor of Ralph Sheldon Hosmer (1874-1963), Hawaii's first territorial forester. Hosmer's Grove, Maui is one of Hosmer's forestry experimental using non-native species he planted in 1910. Unfortunately, some of the species are now invasive on Maui, such as the Mexican weeping pine, Monterrey pine, and eucalyptus, displacing the native plants.
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New South Wales, Australia
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Singapore, Central Singapore, Singapore
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Jenolan Caves, New South Wales -- on rocky ridge above caves in vicinity of Lucas Rocks.This was one of the largest Bursarias I have seen in NSW, maybe 8 metres tall, trunk almost 30 cm diameter at ground.
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Hawa or Koolau Range cheesewood PittosporaceaeEndemic to the Hawaiian IslandsOahu (Cultivated)The wood was used in making gunwales for canoes by early Hawaiians. Medicinally, the outer layer of the fruit valves of hawa (Pittosporum spp.) were used. They were pounded and used externally on sores.NPH00009
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Arakoon, New South Wales, Australia
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Th Trn Tam o, Vinh Phuc, Vietnam
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Hawa, HawaPittosporaceaeEndemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Lnai, Maui, and from Klauea around the leeward side to the Kohala Mountains on Hawaii Island)IUCN: VulnerableOahu (Cultivated)The early Hawaiians used the wood to make gunwales for canoes (waa).Medicinal, the outer layer of the fruit valves of hawa (Pittosporum spp.) were pounded and used externally on sores.
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Tabberabbera, Victoria, Australia
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Stanthorpe, Queensland, Australia