Nafe (Kwamera)

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Example: This plant is used to treat diarrhea in a baby 1-6 months old. The mother takes 4, 1" pieces and chews them, spitting it into the baby’s mouth 2x daily, once in the morning and once in the afternoon until the diarrhea stops. Sometimes if the baby is sick from a spirit such as a yam, taro or sea spirit, the mother takes 2, 1" pieces of stem and 2, 1" pieces of Acalypha wilkesiana petiole (Plunkett et.al. #3081) and chews the two species together and spits on the affected baby, telling the spirit to "go away and leave the baby alone.

Scientific name: Bidens pilosa, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Cypraea tigris via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by JJ Harrison, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Scientific name: Todiramphus chloris, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by Jeffrey T. Williams / Smithsonian Institution, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Lutjanus gibbus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[karwapwe̤j] n.

Example: The stems of this plant are heated, the outer bark peeled off and the stems are used as a rope.

Scientific name: Stephania japonica, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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Example: When a person has diarrhea with blood (dysentery) , this is the plant medicine used to treat it. Take leaves and squeeze juice into a cup of water and give this to the person who is ill. One teaspoon for young children and for an adult 1 full cup in the morning each day until fully cured.

Scientific name: Hemigraphis reptans, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: Hardwood, for carving. For building house posts. If wood is dry when it is wet outside, this wood will light and burn faster than any other wood (due to high sap content).

Scientific name: Guettarda speciosa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: Photo by Rick Stuart-Smith / Reef Life Survey, License: CC BY 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Scarus prasiognathos via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by Derek Keats, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Scarus rubroviolaceus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Mangifera indica, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Example: Photo by Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Sargocentron cornutum via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by Jeffrey T. Williams / Smithsonian Institution, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Sargocentron tiereoides via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Siganus lineatus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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[na̤:nɨn] n.

Example: The stems of this plant are one of the best firewoods; use the embers to light a person’s tobacco pipe. People know that when this plant has ripe fruit, it is time to hunt the flying fox near this tree.

Scientific name: Ficus cf. adenosperma, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Bischofia javanica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Lethrinus harak via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: When performing the kastom ceremony "toka dance" the leaves are wrapped in a band and tied on the head of dancers.

Scientific name: Alpinia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Elatostema, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: Used for food. Boil the leaves for 15-20 min, fry them, or put them in the earth oven to eat. They taste very good.

Scientific name: Microsorum, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Example: The wood is no good for making canoes as it is too soft

Scientific name: Artocarpus altilis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

[ne̤wri] n.

Scientific name: Melicope, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[nəwowa] n.

Example: Agricultural: When in flower, taro (Nerei) is said to be ready for harvest.

Scientific name: Metrosideros collina, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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Example: Ceremonial: During kava preparation, chewed kava roots are placed on the green leaves of this plant before extracting. One of many leaves used for this purpose.

Scientific name: Macropiper latifolium, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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Example: Fruits cooked and eaten. Young leaves can be fried or boiled and eaten as a vegetable, like a mix with vegetable and meat and cooked in earth oven. Stem to make canoe, very long lasting wood 5-12 years, very tight wood. Older stems good for house posts.

Scientific name: Artocarpus altilis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Calophyllum inophyllum, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: 1. Known as the spirit of kava, the inner stem of young leaves can be eaten as bush fodder.

Scientific name: Macropiper latifolium, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: Leaves gathered to feed pigs.

Scientific name: Ipomoea indica, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Example: Good for roasting in an earth oven and has a very nice taste

Scientific name: Colocasia esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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Example: Leaves used in cooking to flavor soup. To cure sore known as "yaush" that is the size of a 50 vatu coin or larger, take 2-3 branches, collect leaves, put in pot, and warm. Wash the sore 3x day wash for 1-2 weeks. This disease is caused by flies and mosquitos. Yaush is the English name. Mosquito or fly bites the person, passes worm similar to filariasis, then a boil erupts and scratch it becomes big sore. Dry leaves and flowers, put in tin, and light it up to keep mosquitoes away. The smoke from this burning plant chases away mosquitoes like a coil.

Scientific name: Ocimum, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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Example: Photo by birdexplorers / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Luthrodes cleotas via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

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Example: Flower for decorating things like at marriage, church, opening of new building like dispensary. Ancient people, when needed water, take stem, mash 4-6 pieces and squeeze into coconut shell and drink it. So squeeze the stems together after mashing them along their entire length with wood post. This can be used to collect water today when a person is in the forest and thirsty. Leaves wrap banana laplap. Put in saucepan boil 20 minutes, toss out water, take leaf off and eat laplap. Leaf folded not tied. People say its native to Vanuatu

Scientific name: Heliconia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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Example: 1. Pidgeons ear the fruits. 2. The wood, being pliable, is used to fashion the limbs of hunting bows. 3. The bole is used as posts in western style houses.

Scientific name: Dysoxylum aneityense, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Carangoides ferdau via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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