Plant facts ²

● Endemic to Hawai’i
● Commonly known as “bastard sandalwood” or “false sandalwood”
● Takes many forms, prostrate form is called “naio papa”
● Flowers continuously
● Blossoms have slight fragrance that could pass as sandalwood
● Birds nest in trees and eat the seeds

Sources and Credits

1. Friends of Kealia Pond NWR, no known copyright restrictions (public domain), uploaded by Friends of Kealia Pond NWR
2. (c) Friends of Kealia Pond NWR, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• USDA PLANTS database
• World Flora Online

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