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Limu : an ethnobotanical study of some Hawaiian seaweeds / by Isabella Aiona Abbott.
- Title
- Limu : an ethnobotanical study of some Hawaiian seaweeds / by Isabella Aiona Abbott.
- Author
- Abbott, Isabella Aiona
- Publication
- Lawai, Kauai, Hawaii : Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden, 1984.
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- Additional Authors
- Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden.
- Description
- 35 p. : ill. (some col.); 23 cm.
- Summary
- Book based on interviews to determine the Hawaiian common names used for particular seaweed, the meaning of the common names, and the uses of these seaweeds and of other algae by Hawaiians. Each type of algae has a corresponding photograph with caption. There are 14 types of limu identified. 'ele'ele, pālahalaha, wāwae'iole, codium reediae, līpoa, kala, pahe'e, kohu, huluhuluwaena, lepe-o-hina, manauea, 'aki'aki, līpe'ep'e, and mane'one'o. The scientific names of the limu are: Enteromorpha prolifera, Ulva fasciaia, Codium edule, Codium reediae, Dictvopieris plagiogramma (also: D. ausiralis), Sargassum echinocarpum, Porphvra species, Asparagopsis taxiformis, Graieloupia filicina Halymenia Formosa, Gracilaria coronopifolia (ogo: Japanese), Ahnfehia concinna, Laurent ta dolvi L. succisa, Laurencia nidifica.
- Subject
- Note
- Cover title.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 35).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Methods of interviewing -- Habitats -- Edible algae -- Hawaiian uses -- Other Hawaiian uses of limu -- Hawaiian preparation methods -- Other Hawaiian seaweed notes.
- ISBN
- 0915809133 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^84060063^
- OCLC
- 10981330
- SCSB-9934966
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library