🇹🇴 The flowers of Tonga
5 pages from Tonga: its flowers, the things made with them and the places to see them.
The flowers, flower customs and flower places of Tonga on Phool. An overview of the country's plant life has not been written yet.
MaileAlyxia stellata
A fragrant Hawaiian vine used in lei and local tradition
🇦🇺 Australia and 5 more · Wildflower
Decoration
Lei
A garland or necklace of flowers, leaves, or shells given to honor or celebrate
🇺🇸 United States and 3 more · Garland or wreath
Tahitian gardeniaGardenia taitensis
A fragrant white flower woven into Pacific island garlands and oils
🇹🇴 Tonga and 1 more · Garden flower
KouCordia subcordata
A coastal flowering tree with orange blooms and buoyant fruit
🇦🇺 Australia and 7 more · Flowering tree
Ti plantCordyline fruticosa
A tropical shrub with vivid leaves, used across the Pacific for ritual and food
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Flowering shrub
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Maile: David Eickhoff, CC BY 2.0, source
- Lei: possibly Fernando Le Bleux, Public domain, source
- Tahitian gardenia: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Kou: Tauʻolunga, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ti plant: Dick Culbert, CC BY 2.0, source