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It is known in English as bulrush [4] [5] (sometimes as common bulrush [6] to distinguish from other species of Typha), and in American as broadleaf cattail. [7] It is found as a native plant species throughout most of Eurasia and North America, and more locally in Africa and South America. The genome of T. latifolia was published in 2022. [8]
Typha / ˈ t aɪ f ə / is a genus of about 30 species of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the family Typhaceae.These plants have a variety of common names, in British English as bulrush [4] or (mainly historically) reedmace, [5] in American English as cattail, [6] or punks, in Australia as cumbungi or bulrush, in Canada as bulrush or cattail, and in New Zealand as raupō, bullrush, [7 ...
Polyscias sandwicensis (formerly Reynoldsia sandwicensis), known in Hawaiian as the 'ohe makai [3] or ʻOhe kukuluāeʻo, is a species of flowering plant in the family Araliaceae, that is endemic to Hawaii. It is a Hawaiian dry forest tree, adapted by being deciduous and losing its leaves during the regular summer drought. [4]
This category includes native flora taxa. Taxa of the lowest rank are always included. Higher taxa are included only if endemic. For the purposes of this category, "Hawaii" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD), and is constituted by the following archipelagos and islands ...
The sheep population on Mauna Kea eventually exceeded 40,000 in the 1930s, decimating the defenseless native plants including remaining silversword. [4] Feral sheep were then greatly reduced from 1936 to 1950 but protected until 1981 as sport game in the Forest Reserve lands, which overlap the original Mauna Kea silversword habitat.
Native Hawaiians used it in house construction and to make the pale of waʻa (outrigger canoes), [3] ʻōʻō (digging sticks), and ihe . The sticky, milky sap was used as a kolū (glue) for weapon and tool handles [2] and as kēpau , much like papala kepau (Pisonia spp.). [5]
Boehmeria grandis, commonly called ʻakolea, is a flowering species of the Urticaceae family that is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. [2] ʻakolea can be found in mesic to wet forests across Hawaiʻi along streams, on ridges, and valley floors.
Xylosma hawaiensis is a small deciduous tree, [2] reaching a height of 3–9 m (9.8–29.5 ft). [4] The alternate, elliptical leaves are 5–10 cm (2.0–3.9 in) long, 3–7.5 cm (1.2–3.0 in) wide, and produced on thin petioles 1–2 cm (0.39–0.79 in) in length.