Smallflower Aiea

Wilkes Explor. Exped. s.n., US National Herbarium Sheet 90468 Barcode 00463023

Aiea or Small-flowered aieaSolanaceae (Nightshade family)Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Hawaii Island)IUCN: Critically EndangeredOahu (Cultivated)Fruit shown here. Flowers, seen on this link, are very fragrant with a lemony smell.www.flickr.com/photos/dweickhoff/4741001594/in/photolist-...Treewww.flickr.com/photos/dweickhoff/10562766153/in/photolist...The city of Aiea, Oahu, State of Hawaii, USA, where I lived for several years, was named after the tree.Early Hawaiians used aiea in various ways. Botanist Joseph Rock (1913) wrote, The wood of this [species] is soft and of a green color; it was used by the natives in the olden days for finishing off canoes." The wood was also used in thatching sticks (aho) in house construction, and in canoe building for gunwales (moo) and the sharp point of the stern (moamoa).Fruits were sometimes eaten.Medicinally, the leaves, bark, and tap root were pounded, mixed with water, strained, heated with hot rocks, and cooled to use in the treatment of ph kolekole a aai (abcesses). It was also made into a liquid medicine with hia bark (Metrosideros spp.), moa holo kula (Psilotum nudum), and k honuaula (red/purple sugarcane) for ph kolekole.EtymologyThe generic name Nothocestrum is from the Greek nothos, false, and Cestrum, a large American genus with many species.The specific epithet breviflorum is from the Latin brevis, short-, abbreviated-, and flora, flower, referring to the small, or short, flowers of this species.nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Nothocestrum_breviflorum

Aiea or Small-flowered aieaSolanaceae (Nightshade family)Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Hawaii Island)IUCN: Critically EndangeredOahu (Cultivated)Flowers (another view)www.flickr.com/photos/dweickhoff/4741001594/in/datetaken-...Flowers are very fragrant with a lemony smell.The city of Aiea, Oahu, State of Hawaii, USA (where I lived for several years) was named after the tree.Nothocestrum is an endemic Hawaiian genus of 4 species.Early Hawaiians used aiea in various ways. Botanist Joseph Rock (1913) wrote, The wood of this [species] is soft and of a green color; it was used by the natives in the olden days for finishing off canoes." The wood was also used in thatching sticks (aho) in house construction, and in canoe building for gunwales (moo) and the sharp point of the stern (moamoa).Fruits were sometimes eaten.Medicinally, the leaves, bark, and tap root were pounded, mixed with water, strained, heated with hot rocks, and cooled to use in the treatment of ph kolekole a aai (abcesses). It was also made into a liquid medicine with hia bark (Metrosideros spp.), moa holo kula (Psilotum nudum), and k honuaula (red/purple sugarcane) for ph kolekole.EtymologyThe generic name Nothocestrum is from the Greek nothos, false, and Cestrum, a large American genus with many species.The specific epithet breviflorum is from the Latin brevis, short-, abbreviated-, and flora, flower, referring to the small, or short, flowers of this species.nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Nothocestrum_breviflorum

Aiea or Small-flowered aieaSolanaceae (Nightshade family)Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Hawaii Island)IUCN: Critically EndangeredOahu (Cultivated)Flowers are very fragrant with a lemony smell.The city of Aiea, Oahu, State of Hawaii, USA (where I lived for several years) was named after the tree.Nothocestrum is an endemic Hawaiian genus of 4 species.Early Hawaiians used aiea in various ways. Botanist Joseph Rock (1913) wrote, The wood of this [species] is soft and of a green color; it was used by the natives in the olden days for finishing off canoes." The wood was also used in thatching sticks (aho) in house construction, and in canoe building for gunwales (moo) and the sharp point of the stern (moamoa).Fruits were sometimes eaten.Medicinally, the leaves, bark, and tap root were pounded, mixed with water, strained, heated with hot rocks, and cooled to use in the treatment of ph kolekole a aai (abcesses). It was also made into a liquid medicine with hia bark (Metrosideros spp.), moa holo kula (Psilotum nudum), and k honuaula (red/purple sugarcane) for ph kolekole.EtymologyThe generic name Nothocestrum is from the Greek nothos, false, and Cestrum, a large American genus with many species.The specific epithet breviflorum is from the Latin brevis, short-, abbreviated-, and flora, flower, referring to the small, or short, flowers of this species.nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Nothocestrum_breviflorum

Aiea or Small-flowered aieaSolanaceaeEndemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Hawaii Island)IUCN: Critically EndangeredOahu (Cultivated)Flowers are very fragrant with a lemony smell.The city of Aiea, Oahu, State of Hawaii, USA (where I lived for several years) was named after the tree.Early Hawaiians used aiea in various ways. Botanist Joseph Rock (1913) wrote, The wood of this [species] is soft and of a green color; it was used by the natives in the olden days for finishing off canoes." The wood was also used in thatching sticks (aho) in house construction, and in canoe building for gunwales (moo) and the sharp point of the stern (moamoa).Fruits were sometimes eaten.Medicinally, the leaves, bark, and tap root were pounded, mixed with water, strained, heated with hot rocks, and cooled to use in the treatment of ph kolekole a aai (abcesses). It was also made into a liquid medicine with hia bark (Metrosideros spp.), moa holo kula (Psilotum nudum), and k honuaula (red/purple sugarcane) for ph kolekole.nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Nothocestrum_breviflorum

Aiea or Small-flowered aieaSolanaceae (Nightshade family)Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Hawaii Island)IUCN: Critically EndangeredOahu (Cultivated)Flowers are very fragrant with a lemony smell.The city of Aiea, Oahu, State of Hawaii, USA (where I lived for several years) was named after the tree.Nothocestrum is an endemic Hawaiian genus of 4 species.Early Hawaiians used aiea in various ways. Botanist Joseph Rock (1913) wrote, The wood of this [species] is soft and of a green color; it was used by the natives in the olden days for finishing off canoes." The wood was also used in thatching sticks (aho) in house construction, and in canoe building for gunwales (moo) and the sharp point of the stern (moamoa).Fruits were sometimes eaten.Medicinally, the leaves, bark, and tap root were pounded, mixed with water, strained, heated with hot rocks, and cooled to use in the treatment of ph kolekole a aai (abcesses). It was also made into a liquid medicine with hia bark (Metrosideros spp.), moa holo kula (Psilotum nudum), and k honuaula (red/purple sugarcane) for ph kolekole.EtymologyThe generic name Nothocestrum is from the Greek nothos, false, and Cestrum, a large American genus with many species.The specific epithet breviflorum is from the Latin brevis, short-, abbreviated-, and flora, flower, referring to the small, or short, flowers of this species.nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Nothocestrum_breviflorum

Aiea or Small-flowered aieaSolanaceaeEndemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Hawaii Island)IUCN: Critically EndangeredOahu (Cultivated)Flowers are very fragrant with a lemony smell.The city of Aiea, Oahu, State of Hawaii, USA (where I lived for several years) was named after the tree.Early Hawaiians used aiea in various ways. Botanist Joseph Rock (1913) wrote, The wood of this [species] is soft and of a green color; it was used by the natives in the olden days for finishing off canoes." The wood was also used in thatching sticks (aho) in house construction, and in canoe building for gunwales (moo) and the sharp point of the stern (moamoa).Fruits were sometimes eaten.Medicinally, the leaves, bark, and tap root were pounded, mixed with water, strained, heated with hot rocks, and cooled to use in the treatment of ph kolekole a aai (abcesses). It was also made into a liquid medicine with hia bark (Metrosideros spp.), moa holo kula (Psilotum nudum), and k honuaula (red/purple sugarcane) for ph kolekole.NPH00003nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Nothocestrum_breviflorum

Aiea or Small-flowered aieaSolanaceaeEndemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Hawaii Island)IUCN: Critically EndangeredOahu (Cultivated)Flowers are very fragrant with a lemony smell.The city of Aiea, Oahu, State of Hawaii, USA (where I lived for several years) was named after the tree.Nothocestrum is an endemic Hawaiian genus of 4 species.Early Hawaiians used aiea in various ways. Botanist Joseph Rock (1913) wrote, The wood of this [species] is soft and of a green color; it was used by the natives in the olden days for finishing off canoes." The wood was also used in thatching sticks (aho) in house construction, and in canoe building for gunwales (moo) and the sharp point of the stern (moamoa).Fruits were sometimes eaten.Medicinally, the leaves, bark, and tap root were pounded, mixed with water, strained, heated with hot rocks, and cooled to use in the treatment of ph kolekole a aai (abcesses). It was also made into a liquid medicine with hia bark (Metrosideros spp.), moa holo kula (Psilotum nudum), and k honuaula (red/purple sugarcane) for ph kolekole.EtymologyThe generic name Nothocestrum is from the Greek nothos, false, and Cestrum, a large American genus with many species.The specific epithet breviflorum is from the Latin brevis, short-, abbreviated-, and flora, flower, referring to the small, or short, flowers of this species.nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Nothocestrum_breviflorum

Aiea or Small-flowered aieaSolanaceaeEndemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Hawaii Island)IUCN: Critically EndangeredOahu (Cultivated)Flowers are very fragrant with a lemony smell.The city of Aiea, Oahu, State of Hawaii, USA (where I lived for several years) was named after the tree.Early Hawaiians used aiea in various ways. Botanist Joseph Rock (1913) wrote, The wood of this [species] is soft and of a green color; it was used by the natives in the olden days for finishing off canoes." The wood was also used in thatching sticks (aho) in house construction, and in canoe building for gunwales (moo) and the sharp point of the stern (moamoa).Fruits were sometimes eaten.Medicinally, the leaves, bark, and tap root were pounded, mixed with water, strained, heated with hot rocks, and cooled to use in the treatment of ph kolekole a aai (abcesses). It was also made into a liquid medicine with hia bark (Metrosideros spp.), moa holo kula (Psilotum nudum), and k honuaula (red/purple sugarcane) for ph kolekole.nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Nothocestrum_breviflorum

Aiea or Small-flowered aieaSolanaceae (Nightshade family)Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Hawaii Island)IUCN: Critically EndangeredOahu (Cultivated)Flowers are very fragrant with a lemony smell.The city of Aiea, Oahu, State of Hawaii, USA (where I lived for several years) was named after the tree.Nothocestrum is an endemic Hawaiian genus of 4 species.Early Hawaiians used aiea in various ways. Botanist Joseph Rock (1913) wrote, The wood of this [species] is soft and of a green color; it was used by the natives in the olden days for finishing off canoes." The wood was also used in thatching sticks (aho) in house construction, and in canoe building for gunwales (moo) and the sharp point of the stern (moamoa).Fruits were sometimes eaten.Medicinally, the leaves, bark, and tap root were pounded, mixed with water, strained, heated with hot rocks, and cooled to use in the treatment of ph kolekole a aai (abcesses). It was also made into a liquid medicine with hia bark (Metrosideros spp.), moa holo kula (Psilotum nudum), and k honuaula (red/purple sugarcane) for ph kolekole.EtymologyThe generic name Nothocestrum is from the Greek nothos, false, and Cestrum, a large American genus with many species.The specific epithet breviflorum is from the Latin brevis, short-, abbreviated-, and flora, flower, referring to the small, or short, flowers of this species.nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Nothocestrum_breviflorum

Description: ʻAiea, Small-flowered aiea, or Small-flowered nothocestrum Solanaceae Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands Endangered Oʻahu (Cultivated). Date: 3 May 2010, 08:52. Source: Nothocestrum breviflorum Uploaded by Magnus Manske. Author: David Eickhoff from Pearl City, Hawaii, USA.

Description: ʻAiea, Small-flowered aiea, or Small-flowered nothocestrum Solanaceae Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands Endangered Oʻahu (Cultivated) The flowers have a sweet lemon scent. When several flowers are blooming at once, the air is filled with the wonderful fragrance! The yellowish-orange small tomato-like fruits were eaten by early Hawaiians. The taste is somewhat bland with a slight sweetness. Date: 3 May 2010, 08:52. Source: Nothocestrum breviflorum Uploaded by Tim1357. Author: David Eickhoff from Pearl City, Hawaii, USA.

Title: The indigenous trees of the Hawaiian IslandsIdentifier: cu31924000546493 (find matches)Year: 1913 (1910s)Authors: Rock, Joseph Francis Charles, 1884-1962Subjects: TreesPublisher: Honolulu, T. H.Contributing Library: Cornell University LibraryDigitizing Sponsor: MSNView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Summary[edit] Description: A green anole on ʻaiea (Nothocestrum breviflorum) giving me side-eye. These lizards are becoming less common in Hawaii likely due to predation and/or competition with the aggressive brown anole (Anolis sagrei). Both are alien species to the Hawaiian Islands--which have no native lizards and land snakes. Date: 22 April 2011, 09:15. Source: Anolis carolinensis. Author: David Eickhoff from Pearl City, Hawaii, USA.

Summary[edit] Description: ʻAiea or Small-flowered ʻaiea Solanaceae Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Hawaiʻi Island) IUCN: Critically Endangered Oʻahu (Cultivated) Flowers are very fragrant with a lemony smell. The city of ʻAiea, Oʻahu, State of Hawaiʻi, USA (where I lived for several years) was named after the tree. Early Hawaiians used ʻaiea in various ways. Botanist Joseph Rock (1913) wrote, “The wood of this [species] is soft and of a green color; it was used by the natives in the olden days for finishing off canoes." The wood was also used in thatching sticks (ʻaho) in house construction, and in canoe building for gunwales (moʻo) and the sharp point of the stern (moamoa). Fruits were sometimes eaten. Medicinally, the leaves, bark, and tap root were pounded, mixed with water, strained, heated with hot rocks, and cooled to use in the treatment of pūhā kolekole a ‘a‘ai (abcesses). It was also made into a liquid medicine with ‘ōhi‘a bark (Metrosideros spp.), moa holo kula (Psilotum nudum), and kō honua‘ula (red/purple sugarcane) for pūhā kolekole. NPH00003 nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Nothocestrum_breviflorum. Date: 23 May 2009, 15:32. Source: Nothocestrum breviflorum. Author: David Eickhoff from Hawaiʻi, USA.

Description: ʻAiea, Small-flowered aiea, or Small-flowered nothocestrum Solanaceae Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands Endangered Oʻahu (Cultivated). Date: 3 May 2010, 08:53. Source: Nothocestrum breviflorum Uploaded by Tim1357. Author: David Eickhoff from Pearl City, Hawaii, USA.

Description: ʻAiea, Small-flowered aiea, or Small-flowered nothocestrum Solanaceae Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands Endangered Oʻahu (Cultivated) The flowers have a sweet lemon scent. When several flowers are blooming at once, the air is filled with the wonderful fragrance! The yellowish-orange small tomato-like fruits were eaten by early Hawaiians. The taste is somewhat bland with a slight sweetness. Date: 3 May 2010, 08:52. Source: Nothocestrum breviflorum Uploaded by Tim1357. Author: David Eickhoff from Pearl City, Hawaii, USA.

Description: ʻAiea, Small-flowered aiea, or Small-flowered nothocestrum Solanaceae Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands Endangered Oʻahu (Cultivated). Date: 3 May 2010, 08:51. Source: Nothocestrum breviflorum Uploaded by Magnus Manske. Author: David Eickhoff from Pearl City, Hawaii, USA.