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Could you help me to identify some species ?!

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Posted by Umauma (My Page) on
Fri, Oct 21, 05 at 4:23

Hello,

Last summer, I studied a forest in Hawai'i, but I have some problems of species determination... I would be glad if you could help me. You don't have to be a specialist of Hawai'i, because these pictures show alien species !

Thank you very much !

Here is a link that might be useful: to see the pictures of these mistery plants

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Looks like grasses, an unknown plant (not plumeria, though), green bamboo, and "heavenly bamboo" which isn't actually a bamboo at all. Those are just my guesses, though.

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  • Posted by poiu 10a (My Page) on
    Sat, Dec 10, 05 at 23:51

Second photo is definitely African Milk Bush
(Synadenium grantii)

and the 4th pic is neither Heavenly bamboo or Cestrum nocturnum as two others have guessed. My 2 cents is that it greatly resembles Common elderberry (Sambucus canadensis) perhaps a different species.

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  • Posted by BBoy z8 WA USA (My Page) on
    Wed, Dec 14, 05 at 1:12

Regarding the elder it looks just like those in a Seattle park planting that is supposed to be all local natives. Friend and I guessed they were received as blue elderberry (Sambucus mexicana, syn. S. cerulea) but are obviously not that species, having a different structure and being in leaf and flower in December! A related species from Mexico?

  
 

 

 


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