Dodonaeoideae - Dodonaea Viscosa, Dodonaea Petiolaris, Dodonaea Triquetra, Dodonaea Aptera, Dodonaea Angustifolia (Paperback)

Chapters: Dodonaea Viscosa, Dodonaea Petiolaris, Dodonaea Triquetra, Dodonaea Aptera, Dodonaea Angustifolia. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Dodonaea viscosa is a species of flowering plant in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae, that has a cosmopolitan distribution in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate regions of Africa, the Americas, southern Asia and Australasia. Common names include Hopseed, akeake (New Zealand) and aalii (Hawaii); "hopbush" is used for D. viscosa specifically but also for the genus as a whole. Fruit D. viscosa is a shrub growing to 13 m (3.39.8 ft) tall, rarely a small tree to 9 m (30 ft) tall. The leaves are simple elliptical, 47.5 cm (1.63.0 in) long and 11.5 cm (0.390.59 in) broad, alternate in arrangement, and secrete a resinous substance. The flowers are yellow to orange-red and produced in panicles about 2.5 cm (0.98 in) in length. The fruit is a capsule 1.5 cm (0.59 in) broad, red ripening brown, with two to four wings. The wood is extremely tough and durable, and New Zealand's Mori have used akeake to fashion clubs and other weapons. The Mori name for the shrub, akeake, means "forever and ever." Native Hawaiians made pou (house posts), laau melomelo (fishing lures), and (digging sticks) from aalii wood and a red dye from the fruit. The cultivar 'Purpurea', with purple foliage, is widely grown as a garden shrub. There are several subspecies as follows: ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=404536