Dodonaea viscosa
ʻaʻaliʻi · aalii
Native to Hawaiʻi and arrived without human help.
Widely distributed native shrub used extensively in dryland restoration. Drought-tolerant, resprouts after fire, establishes readily from seed — the workhorse of dry forest plantings.
Dodonaea viscosa is a species of flowering plant in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae, that has a cosmopolitan distribution in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate regions of Africa, the Americas, southern Asia and Australasia.
Read more on Wikipedia →This is an inference, not a schedule. The curve reflects when observers annotated flowering and fruiting — which tracks observer effort as well as plant behavior, and pools all elevations and islands into one signal. Hawaiʻi’s microclimates vary enormously; a species may fruit in January at sea level and June at elevation. Use this to know when to look, then look.
