From: douglas runde 
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 3:25 PM
To: info@HawaiiDG.com 
Subject: Pahoa DG plants

here's what I posted on the wall  
-also can yo send me the link to your map of WaiLoa course - can't find it today .
Pahoa Village Disk Golf Course

Thanks for the great trailblazin’ hike this AM

Here’s a short plant list – I focused on obvious flowering plants and troublesome weeds:

 invasive exotics that could be targeted for clearing to benefit the Park’s ecology – marked here with ##.

JUNE 2011

I’m not sure what any of the grasses are called…

 Wallich’s woodfern ##

Tree ferns maybe non-native Australian species

Trees:

Melochia trees ##

Gunpowder ##

Alexandria or king palms (##??)

Cook pine

Cecropia ##

Rose apple (unsure of this 1 – may be a form of strawberry guava)

Strawberry guava ##

Albizia ##

Ficus – at least 2 species of banyan trees

Glory bush (Tibuchina) ##

Koster’s Curse ### – probably there I’m unsure

Cowpea – yellow flower with peapods (May be Curara-pea??) ## 

Unkn tall thistle (2-3m !!)

Blue aster w/ opposite leaves


-- 
Dr. Douglas E. Runde, Ph.D.
Pahoa HI 96778


Editor's Note:
In addition to species listed above, many Ohia, all of which are protected with old rock walls, or are projecting out of pahoehoe rock outcroppings, have been left undisturbed during generations of Ag and other Community use.