Hao is an attractive tree with shiny light green leaves with a yellow midrib. The bark is nearly white and as it gets older acquires a bumpy texture. Hao are not very big. For the first ten years, you can expect them to be less than 15 feet tall. Old trees may be about 30 feet in height.

Rauvolfia sandwicensis, the devil's-pepper, [1] also known as hao in the Hawaiian language, is a species of flowering plant in the milkweed family, Apocynaceae, that is endemic to Hawaii. It is a shrub, a small tree reaching 6 m (20 ft) in height, or, rarely, a medium-sized tree up to 12 m (39 ft) tall with a trunk diameter of 0.3 m (0.98 ft). [2]

2013年10月23日 · Description: These plants are one of a few native plants related to Plumeria, which is not native. They are gorgeous trees which can reach heights up to 30 ft. but generally are in the 5- 15 ft. range with great looking elliptical leaves that form whorls of …

Hao Rauvolfia sandwicensis. Hao is a medium sized tree with tiny, fragrant flowers resembling its relative, plumeria. Hao thrives in the heat and requires low water once established. This tree needs staking in the wind and will grow to 20 feet with a nice canopy.

Notes: Hau is an amazingly useful plant. Its fibers were made into cordage (rope), which was used in almost every facet of life in early Hawai‘i. The light wood was fashioned into spars for outrigger canoes and floats for fishnets. Hau, along with olomea, was also useful in igniting fire.

Hao is a variable species of small evergreen native trees or shrubs widespread in mainly dry areas, characterized by milky sap, elliptical or oblong light green leaves mostly 4–5 at ringed nodes, small greenish yellow or whitish tubular flowers, and two-lobed black fruits.

Rauvolfia sandwicensis, the devil's-pepper, also known as hao in the Hawaiian language, is a species of flowering plant in the milkweed family, Apocynaceae, that is endemic to Hawaii. It is a shrub, a small tree reaching 6 m (20 ft) in height, or, rarely, a medium-sized tree up to 12 m (39 ft) tall with a trunk diameter of 0.3 m (0.98 ft).

The hau tree, a type of hibiscus, grows on all of Hawaiʻi’s inhabited islands. Widely distributed throughout the Pacific, it is not native to Hawaiʻi and was introduced by Polynesians. In some places, hau trees are gnarled and crooked and spread horizontally over the ground in impenetrable thickets.

2011年8月26日 · Variegated Hau Tree, Hibiscus tiliaceus, Hawaii. This tree is typically found growing near the ocean in low lying, swampy areas. This, however, is a variegated variety.