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Title: The ornamental trees of Hawaii
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Rock, Joseph Francis Charles, 1884-1962
Subjects: Trees--Hawaii.
Publisher: Honolulu: (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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m-nuts only, isof a delightful flavor. The natives pick the nuts off young treeswhich have not yet lost any of their leaves, and consider themsuperior to the fruit of older plants; they also cut down the trunksto collect palm wine. Two products are exported, the oil derivedfrom the reddish exterior of the pulp of the fruit and the kernelwhich is used in Europe for the extraction under pressure of anotheroil, similar to that of the coconut and used for like purposes. In Honolulu this palm is not very plentiful and its cultivationfor ornamental purposes has been neglected on account of the clumsyappearance produced by its short, thick trunk. An avenue of thesepalms leads from the main entrance of the Capitol grounds to theCapitol building, but they are rarely in fruit now. Single specimensmay be seen here and there about Honolulu. In the PleasantonHotel grounds, fairly mature specimens line the driveway from theCollege Street corner, bearing profusely. * Hnkers Xiger Flora. Plate XXIII.
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Attalea cohune .Mart. A Cohune-nut Palm in Moanalua Gardens. Palm to the right isPhoenix dactylifera L. Palmae. 53 Attalea Cohune Mart. Cohune Nut Palm. Plate XXIII. The Cohune Nut Palm belongs to the genus Attalea, which num-bers about twenty members, all natives of tropical America. Thespecies in question is the northernmost of the genus. Its trunk isabout forty feet high, rarely taller, its leaves are thirty feet long andthe leaflets three feet in length. The flowering spathes appear be-tween the leaves, and bear yellowish flowers, and ovate fruits the sizeof a hens egg, of a brownish color, containing from one to threeseeds. The fruits grow in clusters each cluster resembling a hugebunch of grapes. The Cohune trees yield one crop of nuts each year. An oil isextracted from the nuts which is said to be superior to coconut oil:the odor is more pleasant. The strongest argument in favor ofcohune nut oil is that one bottle of the oil extracted is said to burn aslong as two bottles of oi

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