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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also be made of the two Australian wattles Acacia decurrens and Acacia dealbata both planted on Tantalus, as well as Acacia catechu. Albizzia lebbekoides is rare in Honolulu, the writer knowing only of one tree, in Mrs. Fosters grounds on Nuuanu Avenue; it has finely pinnate leaves and narrow thin papery pods. Albizzia stipulata, recognizable by its large conspicuous stipules, may be found in the Government Nursery grounds on King Street. Parkinsonia aculeata, an undesirable very spiny shrub, is of later introduction and was first planted by the army along the waterfront. Leucaena glauca, the Koa haole of the natives, is an introduced shrub more often a weed with rather large globose, white flower heads, found on the lower mountain slopes and waste places. Of the Caesalpinioideae may be found Intsia bijuga (Colebr.) O. Kuntze, a native of tropical Madagascar and Polynesia; only one tree is known to the writer, growing in Hilo at St. Marys School. To the Papilionatae belong the following species:
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Cassia nodosa Ham. Pink and White Shower After a painting by W. R. R. Potter Leguminosae. 77 Dalbergia sissou Roxb., a handsome tree of which a single specimen occurs in Honolulu on King Street in the Government Nursery. Clitorea ternatea Lam. a scandent vine with blue flowers is not uncommon. Gliricidia sepium (Jacq.) Steud. was first introduced by Air. and Airs. F. M. Swanzy from the Philippines and may still be seen growing on their premises facing Alanoa Valley Road. In the Philippines it is a very handsome shrub or small tree, but it has not become acclimated in Hawaii. A mention may be made of two handsome trees; the one with yellow flowers and flat papery pod with one seed is Platymiscium floribundum, a native of South America, the other with purplish red flowers arranged in dense axillary racemes, belongs to the genus Lonchocarpus and is probably a native of Africa. Both these species, of each of which there is only a single tree, have been introduced by Dr. William Hillebrand and can be...

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