单词 | black mapau |
释义 | > as lemmasblack 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < as lemmas |
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