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kolo.mona

Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

n.

1. A native shrub (Cassia gaudichaudii) with greenish-yellow flowers and thin flat pods. (Neal 427.) Eng. Also kalamona.

2. A similar shrub (Cassia surattensis syn. C. glauca), with an Asian to Australian distribution, naturalized in Hawaiʻi and also grown ornamentally, with yellow flowers and flat pods. (Neal 427.) Also kalamona.

3. A weedy shrub (Cassia floribunda syn. C. laevigat), from tropic America, with yellow flowers and cylindrical pods. (Neal 425.) Also kalamona.

4. Crotalaria incana, C. pallida, C. spectabilis on Niʻihau.

5. Name listed by Hillebrand for Mezoneuron kavaiense. See uhiuhi.

6. (Cap.) Also Solomona Solomon. Eng.

Kolomona

Māmaka Kaiao,

iʻoa Solomon (Islands). Eng.

Kolomona

Haw to Eng, Place Names of Hawaiʻi (1974),

Place, Woodlawn, Honolulu. (TM.) Lit., Solomon.

kolomona

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Shrub or small tree (Cassia surattensis), as important as the indigenous kolomona (Cassia gaudichaudii). (NEAL 427.) See Plants: Uses.

kolomona

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Shrub or small tree (Cassia glauca) growing wild in Hawaiʻi. It is used ornamentally, sometimes for hedges. It has clumps of orange-yellow flowers and thin brown pods. The bark is used medicinally by diabetic patients. Another similar plant (C. gaudichaudii), native to Hawaiʻi, is also called kolomona, “Solomon in all his glory.” (NEAL 427.)

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