Herbarium Sheet Detail
NTBG Plant Name:
Ixora casei
Collector Name:
P. Emos Eperiam
Collection Date:
April 19, 2006
Determiner:
Tim Flynn Aug 2011
Observers:
Relio Lengsi, Francisca Sohl, Julie Cooper
Island Group:
CAROLINE ISLANDS
County:
Kitti Municipality
Locality:
Collected on homestead beside clothes washing area.
Plant Description:
Tree, approx. 20 ft (6.1 m), leaf reddish and opposite folding inward along midribs. Stems reddish. Entire flowering part orange-red and solitary at tip of branch, no distinct smell. N.V. Ketieu [Pohnpeian]
Ethnobotanical Notes:
Branch. For making chicken trap. Cut one piece of the branch, take the young part of the plant off including the leaves, then place the branch in a hole in the ground and tie a rope to it at the end, pull and tie to another plant or tree next it. Participant: Enerihko Peter. Male.
Associated Species:
Dominant plants include ylangylang (seir), Hibiscus tiliaceus and weipwul.
Date of Record Creation:
June 11, 2020
Date of Last Update:
March 23, 2023
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