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Plant Characteristics

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Shrub , Tree
Leaf Arrangement: Opposite
Leaf Complexity: Simple
Leaf Margin: Entire
Breeding System: Flowers Unisexual , Flowers Bisexual
Inflorescence: Axillary , Terminal
Fruit Type: Drupe
Leaf: "Leaves coriaceous, elliptic to ovate or orbicular, rarely obovate, (1-)2-4(-6) long, (0.5-)1-2(-3) cm wide, glabrous, apex and base acute or rounded or apex rounded and tapering to base, petioles I.5 mm long, glabrous or with scattered hairs. " (bibref:1798).
Flower: "Flowers perfect and unisexual (the plants polygamous), yellow, pilose or glabrous, peduncles 1-4 mm long, pubescent, with scattered hairs, or glabrous, rachis globose to conical, 1-6 mm long, glabrous to puberulent pedicels 0.5-2 mm long; calyx tube of staminate flowers 5-11 mm long, outer lobes 2.3-5 mm long, 1-3 mm wide, inner lobes 2-3.7 mm long, 1.5-2.6 mm wide; calyx tube of pistillate flowers 4-6 mm long, outer lobes 2-4.5 mm long, 1-2.7 mm wide, inner lobes 1.7-3.3 mm long, 1-2.5 mm wide; calyx tube of perfect flowers 5-7.5 mm long, outer lobes 2-5 mm long, 1.3-3 mm wide, inner lobes 1.5-3 mm long, 1-2.5 mm wide." (bibref:1798).
Fruit: "Fruit red, globose, 7-10 mm in diameter." (bibref:1798).

Bloom Information

Bloom Color: Yellow
Bloom Time: Jan , Feb , Mar , Apr , May , Jun , Jul , Aug , Sep , Oct , Nov , Dec

Distribution

USA: HI
Native Distribution: Endemic to the Hawaiian island of Hawaii.
Native Habitat: "Occasional or common, sometimes a dominant element of the vegetation, in open dry forest or shrubland, bare 'a 'a lava, sometimes in mesic forest, from near sea level up to 2,290 m, Hawai'i." (bibref: 1798). This taxon grows "in open dry forest, dry shrubland, ‘a‘a lava fields, mesic forest ca. 0–2290 m". (webref: 47).

Growing Conditions

Water Use: Low , Medium
Light Requirement: Sun , Part Shade
Soil Moisture: Dry , Moist

Bibliography

Bibref 1790 - Hawaiian Plant Life - Vegetation and Flora (2014) Gustafson, Robert J.; Derral R. Herbst; Philip W. ...
Bibref 1798 - Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii, Revised Edition (1999) Wagner, W.L.; Herbst, D.R.; Sohmer, S.H.

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Web Reference

Webref 47 - Hawaiian Ethnobotany Online Database (2020) Bishop Museum
Webref 31 - Native Plants Hawai’i (2018) University of Hawaii
Webref 28 - NatureServe Explorer: An online encyclopedia of life (2018) NatureServe

Additional resources

USDA: Find Wikstroemia phillyreifolia in USDA Plants
FNA: Find Wikstroemia phillyreifolia in the Flora of North America (if available)
Google: Search Google for Wikstroemia phillyreifolia