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Metrosideros polymorpha is the most common native tree in the Hawaiian Islands, tolerating a wide range of soil conditions, temperature, and rainfall. It grows from sea level right up to the tree line at elevations of 2,500 m (8,200 ft) and is commonly found in moist and dry forests , high shrublands , and is a colonizer of recent lava flows. [ 8 ]
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For example, the strawberry guava tree is one of Hawaii's worst invasive species. It is dangerous because it crowds out native plant species, breaks up natural areas, disrupts native animal communities, alters native ecosystem processes like water production, and provides refuge for alien fruit flies that are a major pest of Hawaiian ...
Today, many of the remaining endemic species of plants and animals in the Hawaiian Islands are considered endangered, and some critically so. Plant species are particularly at risk: out of a total of 2,690 plant species, 946 are non-indigenous with 800 of the native species listed as endangered. [4]
In some areas, non-native plants will temporarily stabilize soils before planting of permanent native species. Species used for revegetation include ʻaʻaliʻi ( Dodonaea viscosa ), ʻāheahea ( Chenopodium oahuense ), kuluʻī ( Nototrichium sandwicense ), Achyranthes splendens , ʻūlei ( Osteomeles anthyllidifolia ), kāmanomano ( Cenchrus ...
Pipturus albidus, known as māmaki (sometimes waimea, for its resemblance to olomea [1]) in Hawaiian and known as Waimea pipturus in English, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the nettle family, Urticaceae, that is endemic to Hawaiʻi.
No non-native species of Erythrina is known to be naturalized in Hawaiʻi. [4] The wiliwili is distinguished from the other seven cultivated species by a pod with only one to three red or yellow-orange seeds, which sink in water; [10] non-native Erythrina have pods with larger numbers of brown seeds, which float in water. [11]
Sapindus oahuensis is a species of tree in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae. It is endemic to Hawaii, where it is limited to Kauaʻi (Waimea Canyon) and Oʻahu (Waiʻanae and Koʻolau Ranges). [4] Its common names include Āulu, [5] Oahu soapberry, alulu, kaulu, and lonomea. [2] Fruits