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Binya, New South Wales, Australia
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North Carolina, United States
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Photo taken in or near Amani Nature ReserveEast Usambara Mountains, TanzaniaBy N.J. CordeiroPost-Production by J. Quicho
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Pentland Hills, Victoria, Australia
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AaliiSapindaceae (Soapberry family)Indigenous to the Hawaiian Islands (all main islands)Hawaiiloa Ridge TrailIn Hawaiian, aalii k makani means aalii standing in the wind, and another name, kmakani, is windbreak or wind resisting. Here, aalii k makani growing among ironwood (Casuarina)--a feat in itself since the leaf litter suppresses germination of most understory plants using a biochemical means or allelopathy. This is one reason it can be such a damaging invasive species in places outside its native range.Regarding the resiliency of these tough shrubs, an ancient boasts of the people of Ka states: "He aalii au; aohe makani e hina ai" which means "I am an aalii shrub; no wind can push me over," or in other words, "I can hold my own even in the face of difficulties."Early Hawaiians had many uses for alii. The yellowish-brown hard wood, sometimes with black heartwood, was used for canoe building, weapons, agricultural tools, rafters, posts and thatching posts or purlins in house (hale) construction.The seeds were boiled to make red dye for decorating kapa (tapa) cloth.The very hard, durable wood is heavy and sinks in water and so was used for bait sticks. From a canoe, the bait sticks were lowered into water at a depth or twenty or so feet to attract fish or hee (octopus), which then could be lured to the surface and caught with a waiting net. Aalii was also fashioned into light fishing spears, especially for hee.Fruits (capsules) and leaves were used in lei making by early Hawaiians.The crushed leaves were used as a topical medicine for relief from irritating rashes and contagious diseases such as ringworm or "haole rot" and staff infections.Like hops, flowers were used to impart a bitter flavor, and also used as a tonic.For a treatment called holoina, aalii leaves are mixed with alaa (Planchonella sandwicensis) bark and puakala ku kula (Argemone glauca) root then ground and strained. The liquid is heated in a steam bath, which is followed with a purge of ground pilikai (Stictocardia tiliifolia) fruit to treat skin rash (hune or maneo).EtymologyThe generic name Dodonaea is named after the Flemish physician and botanist Rembert Dodoens (1517-1585), who was later a professor of medicine at Leiden, The Netherlands.The specific epithet viscosa is derived from viscous or sticky.
nativeplants.hawaii.edu
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Tanga, Tanzania
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Tanga, Tanzania
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Photo taken at Ching Hong Road, Tsing Yi, Hong Kong.
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Pink Boronia (Boronia muelleri) in cultivation at the Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT, Australia. Photographed on 9 September 1976.Digitised from a slide. The original slide, which is of higher quality, is held.
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Jason Sharp;Fort De Soto, Pinellas County, Florida
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Boronia
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Girraween, Queensland, Australia
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Esenbeckia pumila PohlRUTACEAE Local: Jardim Botnico, Braslia, Brasil.Ref.: Medeiros, J.D. Guia de campo: vegetao do Cerrado 500 espcies. MMA, 2011.
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Austin, Texas, United States
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Rhus glabra L. Our local form has been treated (and still is by some ecologists and those in the horticultural trade) as Rhus glabra var. cismontana. Taxonomists have widely dismissed this treatment and have synonymized it under R. glabra, however, Dr. Ty Harrison, Emeritus Professor of Westminster, indicates that both forms are growing on the Westminster College campus, he has studied the two forms for many years, and they are genetically and morphologically distinct from the tall plants that grow in the east. It would therefore seem to warrant taxonomic recognition. Compared to the eastern plants it grows much smaller (1 to 3 meters rather than 3-10 meters), has a smaller inflorescence, and tends to have fewer leaflets (7 or more commonly 11-27 compared to typically 11-31), and grows in dry places and often on steep slopes where even other hardy local trees/shrubs cannot.Besides Rocky Mountain Smooth Sumac, another name for this form is Dwarf Smooth Sumac. A shrub to small tree in size, usually 1-3 meter tall, this species is native to Utah primarily in the northern/central portion of the along the Wasatch Front (with some outlying occurrences in southwestern and southeastern Utah). It is clonal but usually not dominant. While widespread in North America, it is only found in occasional pockets in the western United States. Twigs and petioles are glabrous. Fruits are short-pubescent.Collected in our area by Marcus Jones on July 17, 1880 in City Creek Canyon (there may be some earlier collections than that) which probably one of the earliest Salt Lake County, Utah collections of this species.February 4, 2012, Salt Lake County, Utah, approx. 4,875 ft., steep, rocky (quartz) slopes
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Koppie Alleen, De Hoop Reserve, Western Cape, SOUTH AFRICA
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, Mpumalanga, South Africa
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