Kihikihi (ngeʻesitenga pipiki)
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| Fakafaʻafaʻahinga fakasaienisi | ||||||||||||||
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| Hingoa kakato lōua | ||||||||||||||
| Desmodium incanum DC. Hingoa lea fakapilitānia: Spanish clover, Creeping beggarweed | ||||||||||||||
 Vakai ki he tala fakalahi: Commons |
Ko e kihikihi ko e fuʻu ʻakau siʻi ia, ʻoku kihi ia. ʻOku ʻi ai lahi ngaahi faʻahinga kehekehe mo e hingoa ʻeni. Ko e kihikihí ni ʻoku ʻi ai ʻene ngeʻesitenga ʻoku pipiki ʻaupito ki he vala kotoa pē, koeʻuhi ʻa ʻenau ngaahi kiʻi fulufulu.
Ko e kihikihí ni ʻi Tongá ni ʻoku ʻikai ʻi ai hano fulufulu ʻi he kau mo e lou, neongo ʻoku ʻi ai ʻi muli. Ko e faʻahinga kehe ia?
Ko tohi ʻo Yunker ʻoku pehē ko e kihikihi ko e D. triflorum ia. Mahalo pē naʻe hala ia? Kā ʻoku ʻi ai ʻa e meʻa tatau ʻi Fisi: konikoni.
Ngaahi faʻahinga kehekehe
fatuʻi vahe- kihikihi; ko e kihikihi 'moʻoni'
- kihikihi, D. triflorum
- kihikihi, koʻeni pe D. canum (hingoa taʻetotonu) pe Hedysarum incanum; meimei tatau mo e D. triflorum kā ʻoku siʻi lahi ange, ko e ʻakau ʻomi ki Tonga taʻefuoloa, ʻa ia ʻoku teʻeki ʻi ai hono hingoa fakatonga
- kihikihitahi
- kihikihimaka
- kihikihilanumata, Galactia tenuiflora
- kihikihingingie
Hingoa ʻi he ngaahi lea kehe
fatuʻi vahe- piripiri ʻaratita (lea fakatahisi, D. incanum)
- kaʻimi (lea fakahauaiʻi, D. incanum)
- piripiri, ngātoro (lea fakakuki)
- konikoni, vakacegu (lea fakafisi, D. triflorum)
Tataku
fatuʻi vahe- http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org/species.asp?id=6050
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070506111137/http://www.hear.org/pier/species/desmodium_incanum.htm
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070506125207/http://www.hear.org/pier/species/desmodium_triflorum.htm
- Hokohoko ngaahi ʻakau; Vaʻa fekumi ngoue Vainī
- Tongan dictionary; C.M. Churchward
- Plants of Tonga; T.G. Yuncker; BPB bulletin 220, Honolulu 1959
