Vavae

Ko e vavae ko e fuʻu ʻakau lahi ia. He onoʻaho naʻe kau ki he BOMBACACEAE. ʻOsi ʻomi ʻe he kau papālangi ʻo e vavae lelei ange ['cotton'] ʻoku ngāueʻaki maʻa ia foki.

 Ngaahi faʻahinga kehekehe 
 vavae tonga, ['kapok']; koʻeni
 vavae, Gossypium hirsutum (MALVACEAE), ['Polynesian cotton']
 vavae pālangi, Gossypium barbadense, ['Egyptian cotton']
 vavaekona

 Hingoa ʻi he ngaahi lea kehe 
(kapau ʻoku ʻoatu ʻa e hingoa ʻe taha pē, ko e vavai tonga mo e vavae pālangi ia.
 vavae (vavae tonga: lea fakahaʻamoa)
 vavae Sāmoa (vavae pālangi)
 vavae (lea fakaniuē)
 vavai popaʻā (vavae tonga: lea fakatahisi)
 vavai (vavae pālangi)
 kīʻailana, pulupulu, pulupulu haole (vavae pālangi: lea fakahauaiʻi)
 mamaʻu, tumu mamaʻu, vavai (vavae tonga: lea fakakuki)
 vavaī, vavaī papaʻā, komiro ina (vavae pālangi)
 puatio, uruuru, uruuruvaikirita (vavae tonga: lea fakamākuise)
 uru (vavae pālangi)
 vauvau ni vavalangi (lea fakafisi)

 Tataku 
 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
 Plants of Tonga; T.G. Yuncker; BPB bulletin 220, Honolulu 1959