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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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thick fibro-vascularbundles. It is employed for various purposes, and is stated to supporta greater cross-strain than any other known wood; the center is soft.In medicine the sap plays an important part and is used as a laxa-tive; a poultice of the toddy with added rice flour is a valuablestimulant application to gangrenous ulcerations and carbuncles.Other parts of the palm have also valuable medicinal properties. Only three specimens are known to the writer in Honolulu; thebest occuring in Kapiolani Park (see illustration). The others arein the grounds of the Board of Agriculture and Mrs. Jaegerspremises respectively. None of these specimens have as yet flowered.The specimen in Kapiolani Park was unfortunately trimmed androbbed of its lower leaves by the inexperienced care-taker. Coelococcus carolinensis Dingl. Caroline Ivory-nut Palm. Plate XV. The Ivory-nut Palm reaches a considerable height and has stoutpinnate leaves of a dark green color. The spheroid fruits are about Plate XVI.
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Caryota urens L. A fruiting Wine or Fish-tail Palm on Mr. Charles Athertons grounds. King Street. Pahnae. 37 three and a half inches in diameter, and are covered with a reddishbrown, glossy, scaly shell, which fact places the palm into the tribeLepidocarineae. The nuts are of ivory-like texture; the surface ofthe seed is black and shiny, striped but not furrowed. It is a nativeof the Caroline Islands and according to Brother Mathias Newell ofHilo, to whom the writer is indebted for the following information, afew of these palms were brought to Hilo by Dr. Wetmore, fromMicronesia about thirty years ago. One of these he planted on hispremises where it still stands, but it has not borne fruit as yet.Another was given to Miss Ellen Lyman who planted it. Thisspecimen bore abundant fruit, but was cut down to make room fora building. Mr. Scott of Hilo bought about twelve nuts of thisspecies from a sea-captain who came from the South Seas in 1886.Only three of these seeds germinated and but o

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