Rosa Say
Got your back
More from Manuka State Wayside Park.
Found an image and description of this as I browsed through A Hiker’s Guide to Trailside Plants in Hawai‘i by John B. Hall… learned the common name of this shrub is the Mickey Mouse Plant. Not very charming despite its name... it’s becoming a pest in our dry to mesic forests as “the oily, protein-rich seeds are eaten by introduced birds which spread them. The shrub is a native of east tropical Africa and is widely cultivated as an ornamental. It was first reported in the wild in Hawai‘i in 1998.”
Got your back
More from Manuka State Wayside Park.
Found an image and description of this as I browsed through A Hiker’s Guide to Trailside Plants in Hawai‘i by John B. Hall… learned the common name of this shrub is the Mickey Mouse Plant. Not very charming despite its name... it’s becoming a pest in our dry to mesic forests as “the oily, protein-rich seeds are eaten by introduced birds which spread them. The shrub is a native of east tropical Africa and is widely cultivated as an ornamental. It was first reported in the wild in Hawai‘i in 1998.”