Nafe (Kwamera)

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5141)

Scientific name: Geophila, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5115)

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

n. understory treelet, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4210)

Scientific name: Psychotria milnei, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5115)

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: Johnson Noar

[kwan kuman] n. shrub, 1-1.5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3130)

Example: A person would never use a food knife when cutting this tree as it will make that person hungry, which is also the name of the tree. So people do not like to cut this tree.

Scientific name: Psychotria milnei, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[kwankuma] n. shrub to understory tree, 3-4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3144)

Example: The leaves of this plant are used to feed to pigs.

Scientific name: Psychotria, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[na:pa] n. tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2998)

Example: Construction: The timber of this plant is used as a hardwood for any part of a house. Agricultural: A mushroom (“Karareg”) grows on the deadwood of this plant and is consumed.

Scientific name: Neonauclea forsteri, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3013)

Example: Hunting: Birds are attracted to this plant for their fruits. As a result, hunters gather around this plant when they desire to hunt these birds.

Scientific name: Psychotria milnei, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

[nawes] n. tree to 6 m tall, dbh 40 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4740)

Example: Fruit used for local medicine. When a person is diagnosed with "cancer" in the local hospital, take a ripe fruit in a cup of water and macerate it until the smell of the fruit comes out in the water, drink every other day, 3x daily, morning noon and night. Also used for firewood.

Scientific name: Morinda citrifolia, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5091)

Example: When the fruit is ripe, it is put in a pot with water. Fill half of a large bag (2 liters) with fruit, add this to 2 liters of water and macerate the fruit in the water. Drink 2 cups/day of this extract, morning and afternoon, for one week to make skin oily when it is too dry. This is necessary, for example, when a person drinks too much kava and thir skin dries out. Eat young fruits as a protection from someone who wants to do you harm. It is said that the fruit has 10 eyes, and can watch after you. Cover fish with leaves to cook in a fire. Crush and boil pieces of the stem and leaves and dri

Scientific name: Morinda citrifolia, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. tree to 6 m tall, dbh 40 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4740)

Example: Fruit used for local medicine. When a person is diagnosed with "cancer" in the local hospital, take a ripe fruit in a cup of water and macerate it until the smell of the fruit comes out in the water, drink every other day, 3x daily, morning noon and night. Also used for firewood.

Scientific name: Morinda citrifolia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5091)

Example: When the fruit is ripe, it is put in a pot with water. Fill half of a large bag (2 liters) with fruit, add this to 2 liters of water and macerate the fruit in the water. Drink 2 cups/day of this extract, morning and afternoon, for one week to make skin oily when it is too dry. This is necessary, for example, when a person drinks too much kava and thir skin dries out. Eat young fruits as a protection from someone who wants to do you harm. It is said that the fruit has 10 eyes, and can watch after you. Cover fish with leaves to cook in a fire. Crush and boil pieces of the stem and leaves and

Scientific name: Morinda citrifolia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. tree to 6 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Morinda citrifoli, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5080)

Example: When there are too many rats in house, put a layer of leaves underneath a piece of food in the corner of the house. When the rat steps on the leaf, as the underside is itchy, it will swell the leg of the rat, making it hard for him to move so you can find them in the morning and kill them easily.

Scientific name: Psychotria trichostoma, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5080)

Example: When there are too many rats in house, put a layer of leaves underneath a piece of food in the corner of the house. When the rat steps on the leaf, as the underside is itchy, it will swell the leg of the rat, making it hard for him to move so you can find them in the morning and kill them easily.

Scientific name: Psychotria trichostoma, Speaker: Johnson Noar

[narwas] n. tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3072)

Example: People use the fruits as medicine to treat diabetes, "cancer" and ulcers. Collect ripe fruits, put the juice in a bottle and drink. The bark can be boiled in water and consumed to treat diabetes, 1 handfull of bark to 1 liter of water. Drink 3x daily to treat diabetes. It was said that Sam’s wife’s HA1C score went from 14 down to 6 using this remedy.

Scientific name: Morinda citrifolia, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. creeping herb with white flowers and red-orange fleshy fruit. (collection: Laurence Ramon #333)

Scientific name: Geophila repens, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. small tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3240)

Example: People use the wood of this plant to make arrows. When hunting flying fox, people cut a 2’ pieces of the stem to throw at the animal and catch it.

Scientific name: Psychotria trichostoma, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

[nurap] n. 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: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. 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

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5141)

Scientific name: Geophila, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi