ENglish: Perfume flower tree; Ten cent flower.
Synonyms: Fagraeaberteriana.
Hawaii: Pua keni keni; Pua kenikeni.
Samoa: Pua-lulu.
Tonga and Tahiti: Pua.
Region: Australia, Queensland to New Guinea, New Caledonia through the Pacific to Hawaii.
Habitat:sub-tropics, temperatures more than 10°C;open lowland, limestone forests, in poorly drained sites, degraded uplands, cloud forest.
Stories: features in local legends; sacred in Hawaii, French Polynesia, the Cook Islands, Polynesia.
Use: ornamental; live fence; leaves for wrapping food, sealing earthen ovens; flowers for preparing a perfume, in garlands, to scent coconut oil; latex under the skin of the fruits as an adhesive; pulp of the fruit as fly glue; wood for house posts, tools and combs, carving of idols, making sculptures
BotanyTree; small spreading tree or a large shrub; from 2 to 20 m tall; commonly epiphytic; glabrous.
Stem: often-branching; quad-angular branches; wood yellowish, fine-grained, soft but durable, hard.
Leaves: thick; blunt tipped.
Flowers: creamy white, later rich yellow; rather succulent; tubular; very fragrant; 7 cm.
Fruit: yellow, later orange to bright red.