candle-nut

Above the cliffs there were grassy uplands with park-like clumps of the screw-pine, and candle-nut, and glades and dells of dazzling green, bright with cataracts, opened up among the dark dense forests which for some thousands of feet girdle Mauna

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

The candle-nut or kukui (aleurites triloba) tree, which on the whole predominates, has leaves of a rich deep green when mature, which contrast beautifully with the flaky silvery look of the younger foliage.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

Occasionally a clump of tufted coco-palms, or of the beautiful candle-nut rose among the smaller growths.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

And high above in the sunshine, the pea-green candle-nut struggles with the dark ohia for precarious roothold on rocky ledges, and dense masses of Eugenia, aflame with crimson flowers, and bananas, and all the leafy wealth born of heat and damp fill up the clefts which fissure the pali.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

From the sea it looks one dense mass of greenery, in which the bright foliage of the candle-nut relieves the glossy dark green of the breadfruit — a maze of preposterous bananas, out of which rise slender annulated trunks of palms giving their infinite grace to the grove.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

The various shades of the masses of different kinds of foliage, with which these heights were clothed, from that of the pale-leaved candle-nut, to the sombre green of the bread-fruit groves, contributed greatly to the pleasing effect of the landscape.

The Island Home Richard Archer

A large candle-nut tree, just before the door, had been struck by lightning, and the blasted and blackened trunk, sadly marred the beauty of the spot.

The Island Home Richard Archer

Max sought out a leafy bower of ferns and creepers, near the foot of the great candle-nut tree, where he stretched himself out and went to sleep.

The Island Home Richard Archer

Another god called the Supa or _paralysis_, rose and proposed that the life of man should be like the extinction of the candle-nut torch, which when once out cannot be blown in again.

Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before George Turner

They dip it into a mixture of candle-nut ashes and water, and, tapping it with a little mallet, it sinks into the skin; and in this way they puncture the whole surface over which the tattooing extends.

Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before George Turner