ʻAkauveli

ʻAkauveli

Fakafaʻafaʻahinga fakasaienisi

Puleʻanga: ʻakau Vahe: ʻakau matala Haʻa: lautengaʻiua Holongā: fabales Kāinga: FABACEAE Kāinga ofi: Indigofera Faʻahinga: suffruticosa

Hingoa kakato lōua

Indigofera suffruticosa Mill. Hingoa lea fakapilitānia: Añil indigo

Vakai ki he tala fakalahi: Commons

Ko e ʻakauveli ko e fuʻu ʻakau siʻi ia. Naʻe ʻomi ki Tongá ni mei ʻAmelika, mahalo pē ʻi he teautaʻu hono 19 ʻe he kau misi, pea hoko ki he vao kovi taha ʻo Tonga. ʻOku sai feʻunga hano matalaʻiʻakau, pea ʻoku fuʻu lahi ʻaupito ʻene ngeʻesi tenga.

ʻOku lava ke fai ha vali lanupulū fakapoʻupoʻuli mei he ʻakaú ni (ʻikai fai ʻi Tongá ni), ko e indigo.

Hingoa ʻi he ngaahi lea kehe

• ʻinikō, inikoa, kolū (lea fakahauaiʻi)
• laʻau mageso (lea fakahaʻamoa)
• ʻinitiko (lea fakakuki)
• vaivai (lea fakafisi)

Tataku

• http://www.issg.org/features/invasives_on_tonga.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20070914140829/http://www.hear.org/pier/species/indigofera_suffruticosa.htm
• Hokohoko ngaahi ʻakau; Vaʻa fekumi ngoue Vainī
• Tongan dictionary; C.M. Churchward
• Plants of Tonga; T.G. Yuncker; BPB bulletin 220, Honolulu 1959

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