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单词 black mapau
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black mapau
Any of several New Zealand shrubs and small trees, chiefly with undulate, evergreen leaves; esp. (a) Myrsine australis (family Myrsinaceae), with reddish twigs and bearing clusters of small white flowers and black berries; (b) (more fully black mapau) Pittosporum tenuifolium (family Pittosporaceae), with black bark and light green leaves. Cf. matipo n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > names applied to various Australasian species
pepper tree1773
apple tree1801
white boxc1830
Christmas tree1844
mapau1853
maple1858
leopard-wood1859
red ash1863
sycamore1866
New Zealand orange tree1898
five-finger1926
leopard-tree1927
maple1934
1853 J. D. Hooker Bot. Antarctic Voy.: Flora Novæ-Zelandiæ I. 173 Suttonia australis..Nat. names, ‘Mapau’, ‘Sipau’, and ‘Matipo’.
1869 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1868 1 37 White Mapau or Piripiri~whata (Carpodetus serratus)... Red Mapau (Myrsine Urvillei).
1869 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1868 (1875) 1 194 Black Mapau, or Tipau (Pittosporum Colensoi). A shrub tree, very ornamental in contrast with the last [sc. white mapau], the whole tree very dark coloured.
1882 W. D. Hay Brighter Britain! II. 198 The Mapau..affords good material for fencing.
1889 T. Kirk Forest Flora N.Z. 75 By the settlers it is frequently called ‘black mapou’ on account of the colour of the bark.
1949 P. H. Buck Coming of Maori (1950) i. iv. 57 The canoe also brought..a mapau (Myrsine urvillei) named Ateateahenga to be used in planting ceremonies.
1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) IV. 2057/2 S[uttonia] australis. Mapou. Evergreen tree 10 to 20 ft., or a tall shrub.
1963 A. L. Poole & J. N. M. Adams Trees & Shrubs N.Z. 166 M[yrsine] australis... Mapou.
1991 Antiquity 65 787/2 The two recent dates, WK-1761 and WK-1762, are on fully identified samples;..the latter about 60% manuka, 25% vaukawa..,and 12% mapau (Myrsine australis).
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