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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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walls of houses and temples. It grows wild in the sub-Himalayan tracts and the lower slopesof the Deccan but has been planted in many tropical countries. InHonolulu numerous specimens occur, some of the finest in the lateMr. Cleghorns garden at Waikiki and in Kapiolani Park. Othersmay be seen on Beretania Street near Punahou, and elsewhere. The name Banyan was first given this tree at a place calledGombroon in India where Hindu traders called Banyans had settledand had built a pagoda. The French traveler, Tavernier, speaks of it as the Banyanstree; others state that it was a favorite tree of the Banyans orHindu traders. It is a favorite roadside tree and should be planted as such alongcountry roads where shade is required. The Banyan yields an inferior rubber of no commercial value,while the red figs are eaten in India by the poorer classes, especiallyin times of famine. The milky juice is employed medicinally by thenatives of India and is used externally for bruises and as an anodyne
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o C Ll -3 Moraceae. 65 application in lumbago and rheumatism, and in Lahore the milkyjuice has been employed to aid in the oxidation of copper. The Hindus consider the banyan to be sacred and state thatBrahma was transformed into a Vada tree, ) ada being one of thevernacular names of this tree in India. The Hindus regard it asin to destroy a Banyan; women are ordered to worship it on a cer-tain day of the year (May 15th, the Jesht shudh), and are told thatby doing so they attain one of the heavens. In Honolulu the tree is badly infested by scale insects which arefollowed by a black fungus (Capnodium lanosum) giving the tree anungainly appearance. Ficus religiosa L.The Peepul Tree. The Peepul is a large glabrous usually epiphytic tree with longpetioled, ovate, rounded leaves the apex of wThich tapers into a linear-lanceolate prolonged acumen. The fruit is borne sessile, is darkpurple and has broad leathery basal bracts. The Peepul is a native of the sub-Himalayan tracts but is culti-va

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