On 14/10/04 17:51, in article , "Mike Lyle"
wrote:

Sacha wrote:
Can anyone tell me what Puakinikini is in English or Latin? snip

Phew! Not surprised if you didn't find through Google: it seems the
proper spelling is "puakenikeni", and nearly all the many hits are
irrelevant. They don't even seem to agree on a Latin name, either, or
if they do, they don't agree how to spell it. It looks as though
there are at least two plants of the name. One, _Fagraea potaliaceae_
(which doesn't look right to me) gets to 40' high; while the other
?_Fagarea berteriana_? only reaches 7'. I gave up before getting to
any cultural advice or European sup-pliers; but I didn't search under
the Latin name.

Thanks, Mike. I'll get the niece to look at Google images of those and see
what she recognises, if anything. I was offered the alternative spelling
too but it wasn't what B recognised. I think I'm correct in saying that
Hawaiian is a spoken, rather than a written, language for the most part, so
exactly this kind of confusion arises.
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Sacha
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