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Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
HOME > Plant list (植物リスト) > Myrtaceae (フトモモ科) > Metrosideros polymorpha
Metrosideros Banks ex Gaertn. (ムニンフトモモ)Hawaifutomomo (ハワイフトモモ, 布哇蒲桃), Ohi'a lehua (オヒア・レフア)Lifeform: evergreen shrub (occasionally becoming 30 m in height) Distribution: endemic to Hawaiian Islands Habitat: moist, dry and cloud forests (ofte establishing on lava) tolerant to drought and low temperature |
Use: wood for house, canoes, etc.
symbolic flower of Hawaii Island |
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[1-3] in the glasshouse of Kyoto Botanical Gardens, western Japan, on September 17 2022.