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kafete
kapapu
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tree, growing in disturbed forest/garden area. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3102)
Example: People use this plant for firewood
Scientific name: Hedycarya dorstenioides, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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kapuapu
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sapling, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4235)
Example: 1. When in flower, it is s a good time to hunt swefa, a type of sea mollusc.
Scientific name: Hedycarya dorstenioides, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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kareng reng
kawitnawit
keipeipwi yasuk
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5065)
Example: Tricks the rat, sees seeds from bottom, but when climbs herb, can’t see it--so name refers to tricking the rat. If a person drinks too much kava over many years, boil 5-6 whole plant for 15 minutes in water (1.5 L) and put in pot, drink 3 cups, 1x / day for 3 days to detoxify the effects of kava. A person who has drunk too much kava over a long time feels it in the body--weak, hard to wake early, appetite is low, body feels heavy.
Scientific name: Phyllanthus imbricatus, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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konamret
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5153)
Example: To make tattoo, draw design and then take youngest emerging stem and rub along design. Follow design and it will burn a design in your skin. Birds eat fruits as do fruit bats.
Scientific name: Alchornea scandens, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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konapwit
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5045)
Example: If a person comes to your garden and tries to spoil it with a special leaf by rubbing it on his foot and walking around or rubbbing it on a stick and tossing it into a garden, take 8 branches of this species (MB 5045) and put 2 in each corner of a new garden. If branches are placed when the garden is planted, it will not be spoiled by this black magic. To stop having children chew 4 pieces of young stem 2 in. long. 2 times daily for one week and the woman will no longer have children.
Scientific name: Desmodium incanum, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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konawa
konpir
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5136)
Example: To tie the wall of a house, strip off leaves and tie fresh to house.
Scientific name: Flagellaria indica, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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konuwak arwerew
koprative
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kind of yam, produces tubers with white flesh. It is fast-growing and produces a large bunch of tubers
Example: Very sweet and sticks to the teeth when eaten
Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar
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kuanuares
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liana growing into canopy of dysoxylum, in open (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3034)
Scientific name: Lygodium reticulatum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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kwanare-yaku
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kind of taro, has reddish-white flesh
Example: Good for cooking and making lap-lap
Scientific name: Colocasia esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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kwonhi taik
makhum
makhum
Makwa wi
marawta
nahpao
nakous sei karkarepa
namatamai
nanen
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tree, 3-4 m tall
Example: Photo by Martial Wahe
Scientific name: Ficus adenosperma, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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neapar
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sparsely branched shrub, 1.5-2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3083)
Example: This plant is used as an ornamental, and is important to plant on graves. The color signifies a grave.
Scientific name: Codiaeum variegatum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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neapsan
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5146)
Example: Stem used to make bow. Stem for ax handle.
Scientific name: Allophylus cobbe, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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nekeinap
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shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3248)
Example: When people chew the kava root for processing, they spit it on this leaf. It is sort of a magic leaf for picking up a person--put 4 leaves together, 2 per side and then lift the person up.
Scientific name: Macropiper latifolium, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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nekeskes-apran
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small fern growing on decaying log in dense forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3121)
Scientific name: Asplenium cf. caudatum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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niar
niar
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tree to 30 m, dbh 2 m (collection: Michael J. Balick #4738)
Example: Wood is strong and good to make houses with, particuarly house posts. Also good for firewood.
Scientific name: Casuarina equisetifolia, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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noufoua
noukrewha
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shrub or bushy tree; parasol leaf tree
Example: Photo by Martial Wahe
Scientific name: Macaranga tannarius, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nuack
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5094)
Example: Leaves gathered to feed pigs.
Scientific name: Ipomoea indica, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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nukune-nig
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kind of taro, might be another genus of “taro”. It has a special stone that is specific to this variety
Example: Roasted or boiled for eating
Scientific name: Xanthosoma sagittifolium or Alocacia macrorrhizos, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nurap
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shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3039)
Example: Fuel: Dried wood of this plant is used as firewood. Not: This plant is considered the mountain form. There is another form, Nowaripen, found near the sea.
Scientific name: Ixora aneityensis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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nuri-nanipuka
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herb growing on roadside along coast road. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3169)
Example: This plant is used by dogs who have an upset stomach. They go to eat this grass and then their stomachs feel better. Pigs feed on this grass.
Scientific name: Eleusine indica, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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nɨkaritig
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kind of tree (Cerbera odollam) (with poisonous fruit with white sap inside tree and fruit)
Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nɨkawahai-rea
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small tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3132), used to make fishing spears, and used to make small house posts that support thatch roof
Example: Straight stem used for spear shaft
Scientific name: Tapeinosperma, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe, Martial Wahe
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nɨpkɨpki
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Pisonia umbrellifera tree, very soft wood, big trunk and branches, has black stinging seed pods
Speaker: Martial Wahe
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penesu
pepheer pitew
pirawa ~ firawa
pirei pirei
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herb growing along stream in open forest heavily impacted by cyclone. flowers blue. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3254)
Example: Used in an unspecified way for pregnant women to ensure the baby to grow well. Used in an unspecified way to control the weather.
Scientific name: Commelina, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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saprouwait
toupar toupar
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5132)
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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yarman
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kind of yam, has white flesh, soft and sweet, with a very large tuber, and is easy to grow
Example: If it grows in good conditions, the tubers are so large that it takes two people to carry it on a pole
Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar
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