Identifier: ornamentaltreeso00rock (find matches)
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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eamy white, the heartwood dark brown to almost black.It is moderately hard and heavy and is used for general house con-struction in the Philippine Islands, also for furniture and fine in-terior finish in the southern islands. Acacia melanoxylon R. Br. The Blackwood. The Blacktcood, which has been in cultivation in our Territory,belongs more to the higher levels rather than to Honolulu, though afew trees can be found on residential grounds on Nuuanu Avenue;it is planted mainly on Tantalus and on other higher situated locali-ties throughout the Territory and does not really come within thescope of this work. It resembles the Hawaiian Koa (Acacia Koa)greatly, though it does not reach such handsome proportions. Thephyllods, or false leaves, which are really dilated leaf stalks, are notas graceful as those of the Koa; they are not curved but more orless straight and give the tree a rather stiff appearance. Mentionmay also be made here of the various wattles, as Acacia decurrens Plate XXXV.
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Albizzia saponaria (Lour.) Bl.Flowering and fruiting specimen. Leguminosae. 87 and A. dealbata with which the Blackwood is usually planted on thedrier slopes of our mountains. It is called the Blackwood on accountof the dark color of the heartwood. The specific name melanoxylonis from the Greek and means Black-wood. It is a native of Tasmania and Australia, and is considered oneof the most valuable timber trees of that country. Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC. Kiawe, Algarroba, Algaroba. Plate XXXVI. The Algaroba is by far the most common as well as the mostvaluable of all the introduced trees in the Hawaiian Islands. Notree so far introduced has proved of such enormous benefit to theseIslands as the Algaroba. Nevertheless the exact identity of this valu-able tree has as yet not been definitely determined. It seems to bea very variable species, not only in these Islands, where specimensoccur bristling with spines and then again others without a thorn,but also in its native home, which by

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