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Fortunately, the current design for the proposed Inouye Center plans to retain it, although the future of other specimens adjacent to Henke is in doubt. This campus tree was nominated as an Exceptional Tree to the City & County Exceptional Tree listing but failed to make it because at the time UH Planners envisioned putting a building in that would crowd out this magnificent specimen. A common trait of this genus is that the tree completely defoliates and is replaced with flowers. Grown for its handsome foliage and profusion of attractive, tubular flowers. memorial tree was a Clitorea racemosa planted in the lawn Diamond Head of Hamilton Library, present site of Paradise Palms Caf√©, which blew down in 1993.Ī large tree in the trumpet-creeper family, Bignoniaceae. Various extractions of the leaves and bark demonstrate medical value.
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Sometimes planted as street tree in Hawai‘i, very showy in flower, but seasonal. Small tree in the loosestrife family, Lythraceae. Although now cultivated in many areas, it originated in Hong Kong in 1880 and apparently all of the cultivated trees derive from one cultivated at the Hong Kong Botanic Gardens.Ī large tree grown for its handsome foliage and profusion of attractive flowers. GotoĪ large tree grown for its handsome foliage and profusion of attractive, tubular flowers. The poisonous fibrous fruit contains seeds that are grated and used to catch fish by poisoning them. Large white flowers that open in the evening and fall in the morning.
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Tree in the brazil-nut family, Lecythidaceae. UH has one tree in our collection, planted to honor UH pioneer researcher and alumna Alice Ball. This tree has a velvety brown fruit the size of a large orange, whose seeds contain Chaulmoogra oil, used as an important treatment for Hansen's disease (leprosy) before the use of sulfons in the 1940s. When Queen Lili‘uokalani Student Services Center was built, the tree was relocated to its present place. This tree was was originally planted in 1935 by King Prajadhipok of Siam ‘ewa of old Farrington Hall, to honor Alice Ball for her work. Dean and others later refined the chaulmoogra extract into a partially effective treatment for the disease. A research chemist, College of Education instructor, African-American, and the first woman to receive a master's degree from the College of Hawai‘i (class of 1915), Ball extracted the oil's active ingredient in the 1910s, and based on her research, UH President Arthur L. The seeds are oily.įor her work using the oil from the seed of this species to relieve symptoms of Hansen's disease (leprosy). The flowers are skunk-scented which are followed by 1 - 5-parted attractive scarlet fruits and oblong black seeds about an inch long. Not to be confused with the Para rubber tree used for commercial rubber production.Ī large tree in the cacao family, Sterculiaceae. Native to India, used for an inferior latex product. Large spreading tree in the fig / mulberry family, Moraceae. Similarly, "commemorativee trees" mark important occasions or institutions, and were often planted on the anniversaries of those events. A few of these date to the early years of the university, and more of them to the last several decades. Other trees were planted as "memorial trees" to honor the memory of someone who had passed on. Some graduating classes have also planted trees as an appreciation of their time on the campus. Later this tradition of tree-planting was continued by such luminaries as Lady Bird Johnson, and the crown prince and princess (later emperor and empress) Akihito and Michiko of Japan. The program for this ceremony included a list of "namesake trees," which were trees associated with the people who planted them. Sinclair (for whom the library was named) held a ceremony to celebrate the 25th anniversary of an early tree planting by his antecedent David Starr Jordan. UH Mānoa has several kinds of special, celebrated trees, which commemorate people and events important to the university. Namesake, Memorial, and Commemorative Trees