Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER)
Report on invasive plant species in the Cook Islands
Appendix 11. Invasive and potentially invasive species present on other southern Cook Islands but not on Rarotonga
Scientific Name |
Common Names |
Present on: |
Acacia aulacocarpa | English: brown salwood, brush ironbark wattle, hickory wattle | Mangaia |
Acacia crassicarpa | English: northern wattle, Papua New Guinea red wattle | ‘Atiu, Mangaia, Ma'uke |
Acacia glauca | redwood | Ma'uke |
Anacardium occidentale | English: cashew, cashew nut; French: anacardier, pomme de cojou, acajou a pommes, pommier d’acajou; Other: kātū (Cook Islands); kasoi (Guam); ‘apu ‘initia (Samoa); ‘apu, kesiu (Tonga) | ‘Atiu, Mangaia, Ma'uke |
Aristolochia littoralis | English: Dutchman's pipe, calico flower; Other: mokorā (Cook Islands); fue paipa holani (Tonga) | Mangaia |
Bothriochloa bladhii | English: blue grass, Australian beardgrass, Caucasian bluestem; Other: desum (Palau); latoka grass, thamboni grass (Fiji) | Aitutaki |
Callisia fragrans | English: fragrant inch plant, basketplant, spironema | Aitutaki, 'Atiu |
Cardiospermum halicacabum | English: balloon vine, heart pea, love-in-a-puff; Other: wa niu, vo niu (Fiji); vinivinio (French Polynesia), poniu, haleakai‘a, ‘inalua, pohuehue uka (Hawai'i) | Miti'aro |
Crotalaria micans | English: crotalaria; Other: pine kotalelia, pile (Niue) | Mangaia, Ma'uke |
Desmodium tortuosum | English: Florida beggarweed, Spanish clover, dixie ticktrefoil | Mangaia |
Mimosa diplotricha | English: giant sensitive plant, nila grass; French: grande sensitive, sensitive gèante; Other: pikika‘a papa‘ā (Cook Islands (Aitutaki)); vao fefe palagi (American Samoa and Samoa), wa ngandrongandro levu, wa ngandrongandro ni wa ngalelevu, co gadrogadro (Fiji); mechiuaiuu (Palau); limemeihr laud (Pohnpei); singbiguin sasa (Saipan); la'au fefe tele, la'au fefe palagi (Samoa); | Aitutaki |
English: yellow granadilla, belle apple, yellow water-lemon; French: pomme-liane, pomme d'or; Other: pasio vao (Samoa); vaine 'ae kuma (Tonga) | Ma‘uke | |
English: sweet granadilla, yellow passionfruit; French: granadille, grenadille douce, barbadine; French: granadille, grenadille douce, barbadine; Other: lemi wai, lani wai, lemona (Hawai‘i) | Ma'uke | |
Phyllostachys bissetii | English: running bamboo | Mangaia |
English: cassod tree, kassod tree, Siamese cassia, pheasantwood, Thailand shower; French: bois perdrix; Other: kasia (Tonga) | ‘Atiu | |
Senna tora | English: foetid cassia, stinking cassia, Java-bean, sickle senna, sicklepod, Chinese senna, peanut weed, sickle senna; French: cassier sauvage, pois puant, séné; Other: vao pinati (American Samoa and Samoa); kaumoce, kaumothe, pini, tarota (Fiji); mumutun admelon, mumutun palaoan, amot-tumaga carabao (Guam), te’epulu, tengafefeka (Tonga) | Ma'uke |
Stylosanthes guianensis | English: stylo, Brazilian lucerne, tropical lucerne, Nigerian stylo; Other: mauku puakatoro (Cook Islands (‘Atiu)) | ‘Atiu, Ma'uke |
Tephrosia candida | English: white tephrosia, white hoary-pea; French indigo sauvage, indigo blanc | Aitutaki, 'Atiu, Mangaia, Ma'uke, Miti'aro |
Toona ciliata | English: Australian red cedar, toon, surian, Indian mahogany; Other: wood pikake (Hawai‘i); tuna (Samoa);, sita kula (Tonga) | Mangaia |
Trema orientalis | English: charcoal tree, gunpowder tree; Other: agaunai, banahl, tal amama (CNMI); elodechoel (Palau); uanin (Yap); ndrou, ndroundrou, ndrikanaithembe (Fiji); aere (French Polynesia), mangele, manele, magele (Niue, Samoa, Tonga) | Mangaia |
Urochloa subquadripara | English: brachiaria, green summer grass, tropical signalgrass, cori grass | Ma'uke, Miti'aro |
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