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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.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 name glabrum is derived from the Latin glabrous, without hairs, in reference the the leaves of this species generally without fuzz or small hairs.NPH00008
nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Pittosporum_glabrum
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Herbarium Blackwellianum emendatum et auctum, id est, Elisabethae Blackwell collectio stirpium.Norimbergae : Typis Io. Iosephi Fleischmanni, 1750-1773..
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/291487
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Arakoon, New South Wales, Australia
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Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
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2009.08.08: Austria, Vienna XXII. district, 154 m AMSL, fresh meadow on Hubertus embankment: leaves (and flower).Common.German names: Garten-Pastinak (AT), G.-Pastinake (DE).ID: Fischer, Exkursionsflora 3rd
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MakouApiaceae (Parsley or Carrot family)Endemic to the Hawaiian IslandsEndangeredOahu (Cultivated)In early Hawaii, the tap root was cooked and eaten by babies and elderly people for medicinal purposes.
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White Bird, Idaho, United States
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California, United States
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2009.07.28: Austria, Vienna X. district, 188 m AMSL, dry brownlands.Flowering in july (may continue till october): dry plant, rolling (steppe roller: while rolling its seeds are shed).Very common in Pannonian region.German names: Sicheldolde, Sichelmhre.ID: Fischer, Exkursionsflora 3rd
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2010.08.01 N Neunkirchen (Rax - Geissloch 1250 m AMSL).Flowering in july/august.Common.Growing here on the northerly exposed, shadowy side of a rock cliff which is mostly wet throughout the year, due to a rivulet constantly dripping down the rock (and, on occasion - after heavy rain or in spring during snow melt season -, not dripping but rather gushing): the so-called Geissloch (which one can climb via ferrata).The "fog" you see actually consists of water droplets sprayed from this rivulet.(You can also see fruiting Pulsatilla alpina subsp. schneebergensis here, see note.)German name: Gewhnliches Breitblatt-LaserkrautID: Fischer & al., Exkursionsflora (2008 3rd)
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Tabberabbera, Victoria, Australia
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Arizona, United States
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Enterprise, Oregon, United States
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Hawaii scaleseed or Hawaii spermolepisApiaceae (Parsley or Carrot family)Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands (All the main islands except Niihau and Kahoolawe; now extinct on Molokai)NatureServe: ImperiledOahu (Cultivated)EtymologyThe generic name Spermolepis is derived from the Greek sperma, seed, and lepis, scale, referring to the frequently bumpy (tuberculate) or spiny fruit.The specific epithet hawaiiensis, belonging to Hawaii.
nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Spermolepis_hawaiiensis