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Variable starviolet

Kadua affinis

Also called Variable Island-Bluet

Variable starviolet
Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0
Family
Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub, Climber
Native range
Hawaiian Is.
Climate
wet tropical

About

Kadua affinis, the manono or variable starviolet, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae, native to the Hawaiian Islands. It is a highly variable plant, with a variety of growth forms including liana, sprawling shrub, shrub, and tree, and yellowish-green to purplish flowers, which goes a long way towards explaining its 200 synonyms.

Other Kadua plants

Cook's Bluet · Kadua cordata · Kio`ele · Kadua degeneri · Kadua laxiflora · Kadua parvula · Kadua romanzoffiensis · Kadua st-johnii · Kadua

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Kadua affinis 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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