kotauiruan
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subshrub, 75 cm tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3236)
Example: This plant is used as a source of fiber to make grass skirts. Gather a lot of stems, place in seawater with a stone on top (the process known as retting) for one month. Collect the stems, pull off the bark and remove the fiber, allowing it to dry in the sun until it bleaches white, when it can be woven into the traditional grass skirt.
Scientific name: Urena lobata, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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kuanihinihy
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5034)
Example: Stems can be used as a broom when tied in bunch. When a young woman does not want to have children, she can chew these leaves for one week, spit out fibers and swallow the leaf residue. If she chews four branches of leaves per treatment, two times a day, for one week, she will stay barren for 5-6 years.
Scientific name: Sida cordifolia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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kuansus
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5165)
Scientific name: Sterculia banksiana, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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kuetawirua
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5135)
Example: When this plant grows to 2m, peel bark and put it in salt water to rett the stem. To do this, tie the stems in budles and cover the bundle with a stone in the sea. After one week, rett the stem by pulling out the strong fibers and discarding the rest. Dry the fibers, then make a grass skirt from this. The leaves can be crushed and used as a styptic for wounds to stop bleeding.
Scientific name: Urena lobata, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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kwanhinihi
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5034)
Example: Stems can be used as a broom when tied in bunch. When a young woman does not want to have children, she can chew these leaves for one week, spit out fibers and swallow the leaf residue.If she chews four branches of leaves per treeatment, two times a day, for one week, she will stay barren for 5-6 years.
Scientific name: Sida cordifolia, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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kwaninihi
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herb to 1 m, flowers yellow (collection: Michael J. Balick #4730)
Example: The entire plant is pulled up, the stems bound together and used to make a local broom.
Scientific name: Sida, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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kwaninihi
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herb to 1 m, flowers yellow (collection: Michael J. Balick #4730)
Example: The entire plant is pulled up, the stems bound together and used to make a local broom.
Scientific name: Sida, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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kwarisus
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5165)
Scientific name: Sterculia banksiana, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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kwatavirua
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5135)
Example: When this plant grows to 2m, peel bark and put it in salt water to rett the stem. To do this, tie the stems in bundles and cover the bundle with a stone in the sea. After one week, rett the stem by pulling out the strong fibers and discarding the rest. Dry the fibers, then make a grass skirt from this. The leaves can be crushed and used as a styptic for wounds to stop bleeding.
Scientific name: Urena lobata, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nanmi nevau
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5160)
Example: Take bundle of stems, put under the sea, with a stone on top, after a week, put the remainder on top of the stone and it will calm the sea. Sore chest from carrying too much wight -- double hanful of leaves, mash into 1 liter water -- drink 1 liter/day for 9 days.
Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nekatirou
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shrub, 3-5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3157)
Scientific name: Hibiscus rosasinensis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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nekatirou
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shrub, 3-5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3157)
Scientific name: Hibiscus rosasinensis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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nekethirau
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5138)
Example: Remove base from flower and chew flower--tastes sweet. Long ago there were no pens, you could use this flower to write message on wood.
Scientific name: Malvaviscus arboreus, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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nemeiau
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well branched tree, 12-15 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3098)
Example: When this plant flowers, along with an unspecified white flower, people know that a certain shellfish, locally known as Bari, is ready to harvest and eat.
Scientific name: Melochia odorata, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nevau
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5114)
Example: Weave bark fiber to make slings, grass skirt for ladies, hats and baskets. To do this, rett outer bark in sea for 1 week to rot everything but the fiber, take remaining fiber, dry in sun and use as a fiber for weaving.
Scientific name: Hibiscus tilliaceus, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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newahu
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5114)
Example: Weave bark fiber to make slings, grass skirt for ladies, hats and baskets. To do this, rett outer bark in sea for 1 week to rot everything but the fiber, take remaining fiber, dry in sun and use as a fiber for weaving.
Scientific name: Hibiscus tilliaceus, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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newou
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tree, 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3079)
Example: Used to treat pain. When a baby has an injection in the hospital, such as a vaccine, people take 1 handful of leaves, boil in a small amount of water to concentrate the resulting "juice" that comes out of the leaves, and put this fluid on the site of the pain, the injection, covering it with a leaf for 5-10 minutes, 2-3x daily until the baby stops crying.
Scientific name: Hibiscus tiliaceus, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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newou
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tree, 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3079)
Example: Used to treat pain. When a baby has an injection in the hospital, such as a vaccine, people take 1 handful of leaves, boil in a small amount of water to concentrate the resulting "juice" that comes out of the leaves, and put this fluid on the site of the pain, the injection, covering it with a leaf for 5-10 minutes, 2-3x daily until the baby stops crying.
Scientific name: Hibiscus tiliaceus, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nikathireu
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5129)
Example: Ornamental plant.
Scientific name: Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nimeaw
nimewae
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5061)
Example: Use stem to build roof rafters. Before people had matches, this plant was used to light fires by rubbing one stem of this against another piece of the same tree.
Scientific name: Melochia odorata, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nisesatok
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plant (to be identified)
Example: Photo by Martial Wahe
Scientific name: Sterculia banksiana, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nɨkatireu
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5129)
Example: Ornamental plant.
Scientific name: Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nɨkatireu
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5138)
Example: Remove base from flower and chew flower--tastes sweet. Long ago there were no pens, you could use this flower to write message on wood.
Scientific name: Malvaviscus arboreus, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nmeheu
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tree growing along ridge track in disturbed forest, next to garden area. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2979)
Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood.
Scientific name: Melochia odorata, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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nmeheu
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tree growing along ridge track in disturbed forest, next to garden area. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2979)
Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood.
Scientific name: Melochia odorata, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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numeiau
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well branched tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3075)
Example: The stem of this tree makes good firewood, it is a light wood so easier to carry. People use it to start a fire, by using 2 sticks of this plant with chopped stem fragments, if there are no matches
Scientific name: Melochia odorata, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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