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Species: Synsepalum brevipes (Baker f.) T.D. Penn. Date: 2007-03-11 Location: Road to Chiniziuwa River, Sofala, Mozambique. Habitat: Forest that had been logged many years before
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Species: Mimusops caffra E. Mey. ex A. DC. Date: 2014-02-21 Location: Vilankulo, Inhambane, Mozambique Habitat: Scattered in low coastal forest
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[syn. Pouteria sandwicensis]laaSapotaceae (Sapodilla family)Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands (All the main islands except Niihau and Kahoolawe)Knepuu, LnaiHawaii Botanist Bob Hobdy shares his naauao (knowledge) about laa.For more information laa on see
www.flickr.com/photos/dweickhoff/4798299178/in/photostream/EtymologyThe generic name Planchonella is name for Jules mile Planchon (1823-1888), a French botanist born in Ganges, Hrault, France.The specific epithet sandwicensis refers to the "Sandwich Islands," as the Hawaiian Islands were once called, and named by James Cook on one of his voyages in the 1770s. James Cook named the islands after John Montagu (The fourth Earl of Sandwich) for supporting Cook's voyages.
nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Pouteria_sandwicensis
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Species: Synsepalum brevipes (Baker f.) T.D. Penn. Date: 2007-03-11 Location: Road to Chiniziuwa River, Sofala, Mozambique. Habitat: Forest that had been logged many years before
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Species: Mimusops caffra E. Mey. ex A. DC. Date: 2014-02-21 Location: Vilankulo, Inhambane, Mozambique Habitat: Scattered in low coastal forest
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Cabo, Pernambuco, Brazil
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Species: Synsepalum brevipes (Baker f.) T.D. Penn. Date: 2011-05-11 Location: Ndzou Camp, Moribane Forest Habitat: Margin of evergreen forest
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[syn. Pouteria sandwicensis]laaSapotaceae (Sapodilla family)Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands (All the main islands except Niihau and Kahoolawe)Photo: Knepuu, Lnailaa wood was used to make gunwales for canoes, house construction, , and spears (ihe). A digging stick () made of laa was also called laa. The milky sap was used as a glue (kol) for tool and weapon handles.The sticky sap was used in plali, or birdlime, to snare small forest birds for feathers for cloaks, capes, helmets, lei, and khili. The flowers of h wai (Clermontia spp.) were used to lure the victims in kia manu (bird-catching by gumming).The seeds were used to make permanent leis.The leaves and bark were used for external medicine. The leaves were for curing the illness referred to as pehu poip.EtymologyThe generic name Planchonella is name for Jules mile Planchon (1823-1888), a French botanist born in Ganges, Hrault, France.The specific epithet sandwicensis refers to the "Sandwich Islands," as the Hawaiian Islands were once called, and named by James Cook on one of his voyages in the 1770s. James Cook named the islands after John Montagu (The fourth Earl of Sandwich) for supporting Cook's voyages.
nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Pouteria_sandwicensis
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Species: Synsepalum brevipes (Baker f.) T.D. Penn. Date: 2011-05-11 Location: Ndzou Camp, Moribane Forest Habitat: Margin of evergreen forest
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Shrub or small tree in forest near the start of the Awaawapuhi Trail in the Kokee area of The Alakai, Kauai. August 14th 2012, I12-0106
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Cabo, Pernambuco, Brazil
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Species: Synsepalum brevipes (Baker f.) T.D. Penn. Date: 2011-05-11 Location: Ndzou Camp, Moribane Forest Habitat: Margin of evergreen forest
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[syn. Pouteria sandwicensis]laaSapotaceae (Sapodilla family)Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands (All the main islands except Niihau and Kahoolawe)Photo: Knepuu, Lnailaa wood was used to make gunwales for canoes, house construction, , and spears (ihe). A digging stick () made of laa was also called laa. The milky sap was used as a glue (kol) for tool and weapon handles.The sticky sap was used in plali, or birdlime, to snare small forest birds for feathers for cloaks, capes, helmets, lei, and khili. The flowers of h wai (Clermontia spp.) were used to lure the victims in kia manu (bird-catching by gumming).The seeds were used to make permanent leis.The leaves and bark were used for external medicine. The leaves were for curing the illness referred to as pehu poip.Closeup of leaves
www.flickr.com/photos/dweickhoff/4797666371/in/photostream/EtymologyThe generic name Planchonella is name for Jules mile Planchon (1823-1888), a French botanist born in Ganges, Hrault, France.The specific epithet sandwicensis refers to the "Sandwich Islands," as the Hawaiian Islands were once called, and named by James Cook on one of his voyages in the 1770s. James Cook named the islands after John Montagu (The fourth Earl of Sandwich) for supporting Cook's voyages.
nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Pouteria_sandwicensis
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Species: Synsepalum brevipes (Baker f.) T.D. Penn. Date: 2011-05-11 Location: Ndzou Camp, Moribane Forest Habitat: Margin of evergreen forest
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Species: Synsepalum brevipes (Baker f.) T.D. Penn. Date: 2011-05-11 Location: Ndzou Camp, Moribane Forest Habitat: Margin of evergreen forest
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Cabo, Pernambuco, Brazil
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Species: Synsepalum kassneri (Engl.) T.D. Penn. Date: 2013-10-28 Location: Survey Plot 3, Magorogodo hills, Zomba Community Habitat: Understorey of Newtonia dominated forest
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Cabo, Pernambuco, Brazil
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Species: Synsepalum kassneri (Engl.) T.D. Penn. Date: 2013-10-28 Location: Survey Plot 3, Magorogodo hills, Zomba Community Habitat: Understorey of Newtonia dominated forest
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Species: Synsepalum kassneri (Engl.) T.D. Penn. Date: 2013-10-28 Location: Survey Plot 3, Magorogodo hills, Zomba Community Habitat: Understorey of Newtonia dominated forest
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Local name: PalaFamily: Sapotaceae Distribution: Common in scrubs of tropical India and China.Small trees latex milky, leaves coriaceous, broadly obovate, obtuse or emarginate, base cuneate, Flowers scented,6-7mm across, white, in axilary fascicles;Calyx lobes 6 glabrous, imbricate, corolla lobes 18, in 3 rows, tube short,stamens 6, staminodes short, glabrous, lanceolate bifid, staminodes sub petaloid,anthers extrorse; ovary 6 celled, hirsute, fruit an ellipsoid berry reddish-yellow,1cm long edible.Wood red and very hard.
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Cabo, Pernambuco, Brazil
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Species: Synsepalum kassneri (Engl.) T.D. Penn. Date: 2013-10-28 Location: Magorogodo hills, Zomba Community Habitat: Understorey of forest