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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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ital grounds, Mrs. Fosters premises, and around theCapitol building. It can always be recognized by its columnar trunkand horizontal branches. It was introduced into the Island in theearly days, probably by Dr. William Hillebrand. Adanscnia digitata L. Plates LVIII and LIX. Baobab Tree, Bottle Tree, Monkey Bread, Sour Gourd. The Bottle Tree, or Monkey Bread Tree, known in Honolulumainly by these names, is one of the largest and longest lived treesin the world. Its trunk reaches larger dimensions than that of anyother known tree, often having a diameter of more than thirty feet.It is a native of the West Coast of Africa, where trees several thou-sand years old can be found on the tree-grass plains, grassy plainswith trees scattered great distances apart. It forms, with an Acacia,the sole tree growth on the plains of Uganda. Its roots penetratedeeply into the ground, while the fleshy trunk, which possesses littlewoody substance, is an excellent water reservoir. The Baobab be- Plate LIX.
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Adansonia digitata Linn.Baobab or Bottle Tree in the Queens Hospital grounds. Bombaceae. 147 comes bare during the dry season and in the rainy season bringsforth leaves and flowers, the latter very large and usually six inchesin diameter. The specific name, digitata, refers to the five-fingeredleaves ( digit us=i\nger). It has been introduced into a great manytropical countries, especially into India, where it is plentiful on thecoasts cf Bombay and Madras. In Honolulu there are only a few-trees ; the most noteworthy are the one growing in the grounds of theBoard of Agriculture and Forestry and another (here figured) inthe Queens Hospital grounds near the Vineyard Street entrance. In Africa it extends from the Senegal to Abyssinia. It has beentermed the oldest organic monument of our planet. Adanson, afamous French traveler who lived in Senegal from 1749 to 1754,and after whom the tree is named, calculated that a tree thirty feetin diameter was over five thousand years of age. He saw

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