Manono or Variable starviolet [syn. Hedyotis terminalis]Rubiaceae (Coffee family)Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands (All the main islands except Niihau and Kahoolawe)Manuka, Hawaii IslandThe early Hawaiian use of manono was limited since the wood warps and cracks. It was used on occasion though for canoes (waa) trimming and rigging.EtymologyKadua is the oldest generic name for these species and is named in memory of M. Kadua, a native of Ulea, who sailed with Otto von Kotzebue (1787-1846), Baltic German navigator in Russian service, with the purpose of collecting plants.The Latin specific epithet affinis, means neighboring or allied to.NPH00001nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Kadua_affinis
[syn. Hedyotis st.-johnii]Rubiaceae (Coffee family)Endemic to the Hawaiian islands (Kauai only)IUCN: Critically EndangeredKauai (Cultivated)EtymologyKadua is the oldest generic name for these species and is named in memory of M. Kadua, a native of Ulea, who sailed with Otto von Kotzebue (1787-1846), Baltic German navigator in Russian service, with the purpose of collecting plants.The specific epithet, st.-johnii, is named after Harold St. John (1892-1991), a professor of botany at University of Hawai Mnoa from 1929 to 1958 and a prolific field botanist, credited with discovering hundreds of new species.nativeplants.hawaii.edu
Family: AscepiadaceaeLocal name(Telugu) Kakkupala/Mekameyyani aakuDistribution:Common over bushes and hedges in tropical India.Much branched climbing shrubs with fleshy roots, Leaves ovate elliptic, base cordate, pubescent, flowers 1 to 1.2cm across, yellow with purple inside, in lateral compound umbels. Leaf is used for the treatment of Asthma.
Family : AsclepiadaceaeDistribution: Common and gregarious on low shrubs . Native of India, and Sri Lanka.Twining wiry herbs, perennial, latex milky, leaves linear-oblong, base rounded, apex acute. Flowers 5-6mm across, yellow in dense clusters. Roots are cooling, with good smell, known as 'Sugandhapala'Photographed at Nelapattu bird sanctury.