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It is a tree of varying size with a dark bark, shiny leaves, and orange oval fruit. A distinctive line of glands along the bottom of the central vein of each leaf connects this plant to the Hawaiian word for it, since piko means navel (in Hawaiian). The word kōpiko applies to all the Hawaiian plants in the genus Psychotria.
Polyscias sandwicensis, known as the 'ohe makai [3] or ʻOhe kukuluāeʻo in Hawaiian, is a species of flowering plant in the family Araliaceae, that is endemic to Hawaii.It is a tree, reaching a height of 4.6–15 m (15–49 ft) high with a trunk diameter of 0.5–0.6 m (1.6–2.0 ft). [4]
ʻŌhiʻa trees grow easily on lava, and are usually the first plants to grow on new lava flows. Metrosideros polymorpha is commonly called a lehua tree, or an ʻōhiʻa lehua, or simply an ʻōhiʻa; all are correct, [6] although ʻōhiʻa is also used to refer to the tomato as well as certain varieties of sugarcane and taro. [7]
Kokia drynarioides, commonly known as Hawaiian tree cotton, is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family, Malvaceae, that is endemic to the Big Island of Hawaii.It inhabits dry forests at elevations of 455–1,915 m (1,493–6,283 ft).
Planchonella sandwicensis is a species of flowering tree in the sapodilla family, Sapotaceae, that is endemic to the main islands of Hawaii. Names for this species in the Hawaiian language include ʻĀlaʻa , Āulu and ʻĒlaʻa .
Fruit is 1 centimetre (0.39 in) long and contains many 1.5-millimetre (0.059 in) seeds. [2] The bracts and fruit of the ʻieʻie were a favorite food of the ʻōʻū (Psittirostra psittacea), an extinct Hawaiian honeycreeper that was formerly a principal seed dispersal vector for plants with small seeded, fleshy fruits in low elevation forests. [6]
Rhus sandwicensis, commonly known as neneleau, [2] neleau or Hawaiian sumac, is a species of flowering plant in the cashew family, Anacardiaceae, that is endemic to Hawaii.It is small tree, reaching a height of 4.5–7.5 m (15–25 ft) and a trunk diameter of 10–30 cm (3.9–11.8 in).