Hawa or Royal cheesewoodPittosporaceaeEndemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Kauai only)IUCN: Critically EndangeredOahu (Cultivated)Male flowers. Very fragrant at night and in the early morning.The wood was used in making gunwales for canoes by early Hawaiians. Medicinally, the outer layer of the fruit valves of hawa (Pittosporum spp.) were used. They were pounded and used externally on sores.nativeplants.hawaii.edu/
Hawa or Royal cheesewoodPittosporaceaeEndemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Kauai only)IUCN: EndangeredOahu (Cultivated)Female flower budsThe wood was used in making gunwales for canoes by early Hawaiians. Medicinally, the outer layer of the fruit valves of hawa (Pittosporum spp.) were used. They were pounded and used externally on sores.nativeplants.hawaii.edu/
Herbarium Blackwellianum emendatum et auctum, id est, Elisabethae Blackwell collectio stirpium.Norimbergae : Typis Io. Iosephi Fleischmanni, 1750-1773..biodiversitylibrary.org/page/291519