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{{Inc| Mezoneurum (Greek meizos, stronger, and neuron, nerve; referring to the strongly developed, winged upper suture of the pod). Leguminosae. A group of about 10 species of large usually armed and often climbing shrubs or rarely trees from S. Asia, Afr. and Australasia, closely related to Caesalpinia, from which it differs chiefly in its compressed indehiscent pod winged at the upper suture and the short very oblique calyx-tube with the lowest lobe enlarged and concave or all lobes connate into a tube. They can be grown only in tropical or subtropical regions. Only the following species is in cult. M. kauaiense, Hillebrand (Caesalpinia kavaiensis, Mann. C. kauahiensis, Hort.). Tall shrub, to 12 ft., with spreading unarmed branches pubescent while young: lvs. bipinnate, with 2-10 pinnae;, each with 9-17 oblong, obtuse and retuse Ifts. about 1 in. long: fls. pinkish purple, in terminal dense racemes: calyx pinkish, glabrous, with the lowest lobe large and concave; stamens exserted, with hairy filaments: pod oblong-obovate, 3-3 ½ in. long, with 2—4 seeds. Hawaiian Isls.—Intro, into Calif, in 1907. Called "uhuihi" in Hawaii. For cult.and prop. see Caesalpinia. }} ==Cultivation== ===Propagation=== ===Pests and diseases=== ==Varieties== ==Gallery== <gallery perrow=5> Image:Upload.png| photo 1 Image:Upload.png| photo 2 Image:Upload.png| photo 3 </gallery> ==References== <references/> *[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963 <!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 --> <!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 --> <!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 --> ==External links== *{{wplink}} {{stub}} __NOTOC__
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