Identifier: ornamentaltreeso00rock (find matches)
Title: The ornamental trees of Hawaii
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Rock, Joseph Francis Charles, 1884-1962
Subjects: Trees--Hawaii.
Publisher: Honolulu: (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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ore common inHonolulu. See Plate XX. Dictyosperma album Wendl. et Drude (Syn. D. (Areca) Rubra Hort.) Red Palm Plate XXI. Dictyosperma album, the so-called Areca rubra or Red Palm of thehorticulturists, is a stately palm with a trunk forty to fifty feet inheight and a diameter of eight to nine inches, somewhat dilated atthe base. The pinnate leaves are eight to twelve feet long and havean almost round petiole six to eighteen inches in length. The pinnaeare two to three feet long, two to three inches broad, have oneprominent medial nerve, and three lateral ones on each side. Theveins and margins of the pinnae are green or reddish. In its youngstate it has dark green leaves with deep red margins and veins, theredness disappearing in the adult plants. The spadix is two feetlong with quite reflexed branches twenty to thirty inches in length.The fruit is ovoid-oblong, pointed, about half an inch long, andpurplish. This is a very variable species, of which several forms are known Plate XXI.
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Dictyosperma album H. Wendl. et DrudeRed Palm in Queens Hospital grounds. Palmae. 49 under horticultural names. It is cultivated very extensively in Hono-lulu and Hilo; almost every yard having a specimen or two. It is a native of the Island of Mauritius, but has become a favoritepalm in the gardens of many tropical countries. Areca Catechu Willd. The Betel-nut Palm. See Plate LVI. The Betel-nut Palm is of elegant growth, rising with a veryerect and slender trunk to the height of forty or even sixty feet;the summit is a tuft of beautiful dark foliage. The trunk is rarelymore than six or eight inches in diameter, and is dark green whenyoung, becoming dark gray with advanced age. The trunk is ringedwith the marks formed by the clasping leaf stalks. The tree ripensits fruits only once during the year. The long branches with largeovate, orange-colored fruits, which are pendant from the upperpart of the trunk, enhance the beauty of the tree and are in pleasingcontrast with the dark green p

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