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n., The paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera 🌐), a small tree or shrub, from eastern Asia, known throughout the Pacific for its usefulness. It belongs to the fig or mulberry family. The bark was made into tough tapa used for clothing, bed clothes; it lasted longer than māmaki tapa.

Nā LepiliTags: flora trees

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s., See waoke. The kapa shrub.

Nā LepiliTags: flora tapa

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wauke

/ wă'u-ke / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

n., The tapa shrub; a tree of the genus Morus, the bark of which was used in making native cloth or tapa.

Nā LepiliTags: flora tapa

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Wauke

WahiLocation, Place Names of Hawaiʻi (1974),

Street, Diamond Head section, Honolulu, Oʻahu. Literally, paper mulberry.

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Paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera). A small tree or shrub, also called poʻaʻaha. The inner bark is used in making dye. (NEAL 301.)

Tree (Broussonetia papyrifera), which supplies bark for making cordage.

East Asian paper mulberry tree or shrub (Broussonetia papyrifera), which formerly supplied the best bark for the warmest, most flexible and water resistant kapa. Introduced to Hawaiʻi by the early settlers.

See poʻaʻaha. (NEAL 301.)

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