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Puna cyanea

Cyanea platyphylla

Also called Haha

Puna cyanea
Photo: Photograph by Karl Magnacca., CC BY-SA 2.5
Family
Campanulaceae (Campanul family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Hawaiian Is. (Hawaiʻi)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Cyanea platyphylla is a rare species of flowering plant in the bellflower family known by the common names puna cyanea and flatleaf cyanea. It is endemic to the island of Hawaii, where there are fewer than 100 plants remaining in the wild. It is a federally listed endangered species. Like other Cyanea it is known as haha in Hawaiian.

This Hawaiian lobelioid is a shrub reaching 3 meters in maximum height. It bears white, red, or red-striped yellowish flowers.

Other Cyanea plants

Honolulu cyanea · 'aku · Gingerleaf cyanea · Spleenwort cyanea · O'ahu cyanea · Treetrunk cyanea · Koolau Range rollandia · Long-foot cyanea · Ravine cyanea · Eleele cyanea · Cyanea gibsonii · Smooth cyanea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cyanea platyphylla by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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