Touhuni

Ko e touhuni ko e fuʻu ʻakau lahi ia. ʻOku ui foki ko e Messerschmidia argentea, pe Argusia argentea. Ko e argentea, ʻa ia ko hono 'uhinga ko e lanusiliva pe ko e ʻasi siliva ʻi lalo ʻo e lau. ʻOku ongoongoa ʻa e ngaahi fuʻu touhuni ʻi he Hala Vuna ʻi Nukuʻalofa.

ʻOua ʻe fakapuputuʻu mo e puko, ʻoku tatau ʻa e ʻasi ʻo hona lau, ka ʻoku kehe mo e toenga. ʻOku petepete ʻaupito ʻa e kili ʻo e ʻakaú ni.

Hingoa ʻi he ngaahi lea kehe
toihune (lea fakaniuē)
tahinu (lea fakatahisi)
tausuni (lea fakahaʻamoa)
tauʻunu, taiʻinu, tausunu (lea fakakuki)
evu, roronibebe (lea fakafisi)

Tataku
http://www.agroforestry.net/tti/Tournefortia-treeheliotr.pdf
Hokohoko ngaahi ʻakau; Vaʻa fekumi ngoue Vainī
Tongan dictionary; C.M. Churchward
Multipurpose trees for agroforestry in the Pacific islands; R.R. Thaman, C.R. Elevitch, K.M. Wilkinson
Flowers of the Pacific island seashore; W.A. Whistler; ISBN 978-0-8248-1528-8
Plants of Tonga; T.G. Yuncker; BPB bulletin 220, Honolulu 1959
D.R. Drake et al., Rain forest vegetation of ʻEua Island, New Zealand Journal of Botany 34, 1996