Myoporum sandwicense var. sandwicense

Description:

Naio or Bastard sandalwoodScrophulariaceae (Figwort family)Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands (All the main islands except Kahoolawe)Kunuulau (Kemuku), LnaiFlowers are described as smelling like "spicy sandalwood" or like honey. The wood of naio has a faint sandalwood fragrance. Read why it has acquired the name "Bastard sandalwood" at nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Santalum_freycinetianum (See "The Sandalwood Trade Story")Early Hawaiians used the wood of naio (aaka). The larger branches and trunks for posts, rafters and thatching poles or purlins in homes (hale) and for netting needles or shuttles.EtymologyThe generic name Myoporum is derived from the Greek myo, close, and poros, pore in reference to the close appearance of the leaf glands of these plants.The species name sandwicense refers to the "Sandwich Islands," as the Hawaiian Islands were once called, and named by James Cook on one of his voyages in the 1770s. James Cook named the islands after John Montagu (The fourth Earl of Sandwich) for supporting Cook's voyages.nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Myoporum_sandwicense