Pacific ironwood - Tetiaroa Society
网页In the 19th century, the Pomary "took" this word and it became taboo. The names of both the warrior and he tree has changed to "’Aito". The ‘Aito is known for its rot resistant, sturdy, and heavy wood. It is used in construction, and was once used in the manufacture of weapons (spears, clubs, etc.).
Te Māra Reo - temarareo.org
网页The Polynesian toa (Casuarina equisetifolia) is native to Southeast Asia and Northern Australia, and possibly as far as Tonga in Polynesia. The tree grows to about 20 metres high, and thrives in littoral environments. It has a very hard red wood, with a variety of uses, from house timber to large fish hooks.
Phyllocladus toatoa - Wikipedia
网页Phyllocladus toatoa is a small, dioecious or monoecious, conical or bushy tree that grows to 15 m (49 ft) in height and 60 cm (24 in) in diameter at maturity on average. [2] The outer bark ranges in color from dark brown to a silvery-brown. [3] P. toatoa is distinguishable from other species in the genus Phyllocladus due to its whorled pinnate ...
Te Māra Reo - temarareo.org
网页This tree. native to Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific as far as Tonga, is one of the canoe plants carried throughout Polynesia, but only the name reached the extremities: toatoa in Aotearoa, and koa (Acacia koa) in Hawai'i. In Rapanui the word toa signifes sugar cane, but this is a comparatively recent coinage, adapted from Tahitian tō.
Toa wood - Materials - The Carving Path
网页2008年4月1日 · Through out southern Polynesia, the ironwood is known as “the warrior tree” (toa). Tahitians claim that it sprang from the bodies of warriors, whose blood became the red sap, their hair the leaves.
Phyllocladus toatoa (toatoa) description - conifers.org
网页2023年2月28日 · Toatoa (Maori), blue celery pine. Taxonomic notes. Syn: Phyllocladus glaucus Kirk 1869 non Carriere 1855 (Farjon 1998). Description. "Dioecious or monoecious tree up to 15 m, trunk up to 6 dm diameter. Phylloclades alternately pinnately arranged on whorled rachides up to 4 dm long.
Phyllocladus alpinus (mountain toatoa) description
网页2023年2月28日 · Monoecious, strongly aromatic shrub or tree up to 9 m tall, trunk short, up to 40 cm in diameter. True leaves occur only on seedlings and occasionally on young plants. They are narrow-linear, acute, deciduous, up to 1.5 cm long, on older plants shorter. Phylloclades alternate to subopposite, rhachis short.
Phyllocladus toatoa - New Zealand Plant Conservation Network
网页Toatoa is easily distinguished from all other species of Phyllocladus by its strictly whorled pinnate phylloclades with diamond- to fanshaped segments, its terminal clusters of 5–20 cylindrical to wedge-shaped male cones, and its short-stalked, ovoid to globose female cones supporting 3–15 seeds.
Phyllocladus toatoa - toatoa - University of Auckland
网页Phyllocladus toatoa is a small tree with distinctly whorled branches. Seedling plants have narrow, flattened needle-like leaves. Adult plants have flattened photosynthetic leaf-like stems (phylloclades). Phylloclades are in distinct whorls and are divided into broad, blue-green leathery segments arranged in two rows along the phylloclade axis.
Protoform: TOA [AN] A tree (Casuarina equisetifolia) - Max Planck …
网页Protoform: TOA [AN] A tree (Casuarina equisetifolia) Pollex entries: 33 entries found. Download: Pollex-Text , XML Format.