Ikuʻipusi

Ko e ikuʻipusi ko e fuʻu ʻakau siʻi ia mo e ngaahi kiʻi matalaʻiʻakau lanufekika, ʻoku tatau ʻene ʻasi mo e hiku ʻo e pusi. Ko e ʻakau vao ia. ʻOku tatau mo e Uraria lagopodoides mo e Uraria lagopoides DC. mo e Hedysarum lagopodioides mo e hā fua.

Kā ʻoku ʻi ai ʻa e faʻahinga kehe, ko e ikuʻipusi kulaʻahoʻaho (hingoa taʻefakalakanga) [red-hot cat's-tail, chenille plant]. ʻOku lōloa ange mo e ʻahoʻaho ange mo e fakaʻofoʻofa ange hono "hiku". ʻOku manakoa ʻi he ngoue kakala. ʻOku ui ko e kalakalaʻāpusi ʻe he tokotaha, neongo ko e faʻahinga kehe mei he kāinga tatau pē ia.

Ngaahi faʻahinga kehekehe
ikuʻipusi; koʻeni
ikuʻipusi kulaʻahoʻaho, Acalypha hispida Burm.f. (FABACEAE)

Hingoa ʻi he ngaahi lea kehe
ikuʻipusi
uluhenga (lea fakaniuē)
lala (lea fakahaʻamoa)
lakanikasa, lakanirase, setamoli (lea fakafisi)
ikuʻipusi kulaʻahoʻahokiore: kumā pe monumanu, ngiāo: ngau (ʻo e pusi), mīmī: pusi (miaumiau), ʻ(a)ero: hiku
ʻaero mīmī (lea fakatahisi)
siʻusiʻu pusi (lea fakahaʻamoa)
ʻiku kiorengiāo, ʻaere mīmī, ʻuku kiore, ʻērō mīmī (lea fakakuki)

Tataku
http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org/species.asp?id=5690
Hokohoko ngaahi ʻakau; Vaʻa fekumi ngoue Vainī
Plants of Tonga; T.G. Yuncker; BPB bulletin 220, Honolulu 1959