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Updated 1/15/2014

Family Ericaceae

HAWAII - INDIGENOUS

Leptecophylla tameiameiae

Saddle Road, Hawaii

 

Kilauea, Hawaii

 

Haleakala, Maui

 



Saddle Road, Hawaii

PUKIAWE

Stiff many-branched shrub common in mesic & wet forests, windswept ridges, lava flows & bogs.  Hard berries red, pink or white.  Native to Hawaii & the Marquesas.  Formerly known as Styphelia tameiameiae and placed in the Family Epacridaceae.