Vavae

He onoʻaho naʻe kau ki he BOMBACACEAE. ʻOsi ʻomi ʻe he kau papālangi ʻo e vavae lelei ange ['cotton'] ʻoku ngāueʻaki maʻa ia foki.

Vavae

Fakafaʻafaʻahinga fakasaienisi

Puleʻanga: ʻakau Vahe: ʻakau matala Haʻa: lautengaʻiua Holongā: malvales Kāinga: MALVACEAE Kāinga siʻi: bombacoideae Kāinga ofi: Ceiba Faʻahinga: pentandra

Hingoa kakato lōua

Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn. Hingoa lea fakapilitānia: Kapok

Vakai ki he tala fakalahi: Commons & Wikispecies

• vavae tonga, ['kapok']; koʻeni
• vavae, Gossypium hirsutum (MALVACEAE), ['Polynesian cotton']
• vavae pālangi, Gossypium barbadense, ['Egyptian cotton']
• vavaekona

(kapau ʻoku ʻoatu ʻa e hingoa ʻe taha pē, ko e vavai tonga mo e vavae pālangi ia.

• vavae (vavae tonga: lea fakahaʻamoa)
  • vavae Sāmoa (vavae pālangi)
• vavae (lea fakaniuē)
• vavai popaʻā (vavae tonga: lea fakatahisi)
  • vavai (vavae pālangi)
• kīʻailana, pulupulu, pulupulu haole (vavae pālangi: lea fakahauaiʻi)
• mamaʻu, tumu mamaʻu, vavai (vavae tonga: lea fakakuki)
  • vavaī, vavaī papaʻā, komiro ina (vavae pālangi)
• puatio, uruuru, uruuruvaikirita (vavae tonga: lea fakamākuise)
  • uru (vavae pālangi)
• vauvau ni vavalangi (lea fakafisi)

• Hokohoko ngaahi ʻakau; Vaʻa fekumi ngoue Vainī
• Tongan dictionary; C.M. Churchward
• Multipurpose trees for agroforestry in the Pacific islands; R.R. Thaman, C.R. Elevitch, K.M. Wilkinson
• Plants of Tonga; T.G. Yuncker; BPB bulletin 220, Honolulu 1959

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