Photo taken at the herb garden in the Zoological & Botanical Garden, Hong Kong. Root of this plant has the following properties : Sedative, Hypotensive, Circulation promoting, Analgesic, Antipyretic, Anti-inflammatory.
HaoApocynaceaeEndemic to the Hawaiian IslandsHawaii Island (Cultivated)Hao grows as trees to small shrubs. Hao grows as trees to small shrubs. The tiny flowers of hao, while not dramatic, have a fragrance similar to plumeria, which belong to the same family.Early Hawaiians scraped the bark and mixed with its flowers in water. The medicine was drunk to aid in curing paoao (a childhood disease with physical weakening) and ea (thrush).The wood of hao is very hard. "Native Hawaiian Medicine--Volume III" by Kaluna M. Kaaiakamanu notes: "It is called Hao because of what it is like due to the hardness that can spoil an adze." Incidentally, the name for iron in Hawaiian is also hao.NPH00002nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Rauvolfia_sandwicensis
Summary[edit] Description: English: Rauwolfia liberiensis. 1. Flowering branch (nat. size). ; 2. Flower (enlarged). ; 3. Calyx and pistil (enlarged). ; 4. Section of corolla (enlarged). Date: 1906. Source: New York Public Library [1], from Liberia by Sir Harry Johnston ; with an appendix on the flora of Liberia by Dr. Otto Stapf ; 28 coloured illustrations by Sir Harry Johnston, 24 botanical drawings by Miss Matilda Smith.. Author: Matilda Smith (died 1926). Permission(Reusing this file): : This image is available from the New York Public Library's Digital Library under the strucID 1112233This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information..
Summary[edit] Description: English: Rauvolfia caffra Sond. trunk and bark - Jan Cilliers Park, Groenkloof, Pretoria, South Africa. Date: August 2018. Source: Own work. Author: Paul Meintjes00.
Summary[edit] Description: Rauvolfia nukuhivensis, inflorescence with buds and open flower (Keiaki, Nuku Hiva, 27 Dec. 2002, J.-F. Butaud unvouchered). Date: July 2011. Source: A reassessment of Marquesan Ochrosia and Rauvolfia (Apocynaceae) with two new combinations doi:10.3897/PhytoKeys.4.1599. Author: David H. Lorence, Jean-François Butaud. : This image is uploaded as part of a collaboration between Wikispecies and PhytoKeysEnglish | Español | Français | Magyar | Português do Brasil | +/−. : This file is licensed under the Creative CommonsAttribution 3.0 Unported license.:. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 CC BY 3.0 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 truetrue.
Summary[edit] Description: Rauvolfia nukuhivensis, branchlet with leaves and inflorescence with open flowers, and buds with left-contort corolla lobes (Terre-Deserte, Nuku Hiva, May 2007, Butaud (unvouchered). Date: July 2011. Source: A reassessment of Marquesan Ochrosia and Rauvolfia (Apocynaceae) with two new combinations doi:10.3897/PhytoKeys.4.1599. Author: David H. Lorence, Jean-François Butaud. : This image is uploaded as part of a collaboration between Wikispecies and PhytoKeysEnglish | Español | Français | Magyar | Português do Brasil | +/−. : This file is licensed under the Creative CommonsAttribution 3.0 Unported license.:. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 CC BY 3.0 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 truetrue.
Photo taken at the herb garden in the Zoological & Botanical Garden, Hong Kong. Root of this plant has the following properties : Sedative, Hypotensive, Circulation promoting, Analgesic, Antipyretic, Anti-inflammatory.
HaoApocynaceaeEndemic to the Hawaiian IslandsHawaii Island (Cultivated)Hao grows as trees to small shrubs. Hao grows as trees to small shrubs. The tiny flowers of hao, while not dramatic, have a fragrance similar to plumeria, which belong to the same family. www.flickr.com/photos/dweickhoff/5188494228/in/photolist-...Early Hawaiians scraped the bark and mixed with its flowers in water. The medicine was drunk to aid in curing paoao (a childhood disease with physical weakening) and ea (thrush).The wood of hao is very hard. "Native Hawaiian Medicine--Volume III" by Kaluna M. Kaaiakamanu notes: "It is called Hao because of what it is like due to the hardness that can spoil an adze." Incidentally, the name for iron in Hawaiian is also hao.NPH00003nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Rauvolfia_sandwicensis