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Family Rubiaceae
Coffee Family
HAWAII - ENDEMIC
Gardenia brighamii
 
NANU or NA'U
| Small endangered tree from dry forests of Oahu to Hawaii. Flower
about 2 inches in diameter. Only a
few wild plants remaining but widely cultivated. |
Kadua acuminata
Manoa Cliffs Trail, Oahu |
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| Endemic vine- shrub in mesic to wet forests of the main Hawaiian
Islands. Flowers yellow or green. Variable morphology. |
Psychotria mariniana
KOPIKO
| Common shrub or tree in mesic to wet forests from Kaua'i to Maui.
Thick shiny leaves have 3mm pits called domatia at the base of
each vein and a prominent petiole. Fruits are orange when ripe. |
Psychotria kaduana
KOPIKO KEA
| Common shrub or small tree in mesic to wet forests from Kaua'i to Maui.
Thick shiny leaves may have tiny domatia 0.5mm at the base of
each vein and lack a prominent petiole. |
Psychotria kaduana x
mariniana
KOPIKO
| Occasional hybrids occur in the southern Ko'olau mountains.
Leaves have larger domatia of P. mariniana, lacking petioles as
in P. kaduana. |
Psychotria hathewayi
KOPIKO
| Small tree in occasional in mesic & dry forest of Oahu's Wai'anae
Mountains. Flowers have hair on the corolla & calyx. |
Coprosma montana
PILO
| Shrub or small tree often a dominant component of subalpine shrubland
on East Maui & Hawaii. |
HAWAII - INDIGENOUS
Psydrax odoratum
UH Manoa, Oahu
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Koko Crater, Oahu |
Hoomaluhia, Kaneohe, Oahu |
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ALAHE'E
| Common shrub or small tree in dry & mesic forests of the Main
Hawaiian Islands. Glossy leaves. Fruits are black when ripe.
Native to the Pacific basin from New Caledonia & Micronesia east to
Hawaii & the Tuamotus. Formerly known as Canthium odoratum. |
HAWAII - POLYNESIAN CULTIVATED
/ NATURALIZED
Morinda citrifolia
INDIAN MULBERRY NONI
| Small tree found in coastal areas, lava fields, dry, and mesic
forests. Brought to Hawaii by early Polynesian settlers and
now naturalized. Foul-smelling bitter fruit is used medicinally,
roots & bark for dye. Noni juice is touted as a homeopathic
remedy. One fruit contains roughly half the Vitamin C of an Orange
(I'd choose the orange).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noni |
HAWAII - NATURALIZED
Coffea arabica
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Kona, Hawaii
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ARABIAN COFFEE
Spermacoce assurgens
BUTTONWEED
| Woody herb common in lawns & disturbed areas. Native from
Florida to Tropical South America. |
Hedyotis corymbosa
Bellows AFB, Oahu
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HEDYOTIS
| Small herb in disturbed mesic areas. Flowers 2mm wide. Native
of Africa but widely naturalized. |
HAWAII - CULTIVATED
Gardenia taitensis
UH Manoa, Oahu
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TAHITIAN GARDENIA TIARE
| Ornamental shrub native to Melanesia but cultivated throughout the
Tropical Pacific. Flower about 4 inches in diameter.
Official flower of Tahiti. |
Mussaenda erythrophylla
UH Manoa Campus |
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MUSSAENDA 'QUEEN SIRIKIT'
| Ornamental shrub from SE Asia with numerous cultivars. Pink
'flowers' are actually sepals or colored bracts, true flowers are small
& yellow. |
Ixora spp.
IXORA
| Ornamental shrubs from South Asia. |
Randia sp.
UH Manoa Campus |
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RANDIA
| Ornamental shrub from Australia. |
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