Saafa

Saafa

Fakafaʻafaʻahinga fakasaienisi

Puleʻanga: ʻakau Vahe: ʻakau matala Haʻa: lautengaʻitaha Holongā: poales Kāinga: mohuku Kāinga ofi: Panicum Faʻahinga: maximum

Hingoa kakato lōua

Panicum maximum Jacq. Hingoa lea fakapilitānia: Buffalo, Guinea grass

Ko e saafa ko e fuʻu ʻakau siʻi ia, ko e mohuku ia. Naʻe ʻomi ki Tongá ni mei ʻAfilika, naʻe pehē ko e ngaahi tenga ʻi he kofukofu saafa (lea fakapilitānia: chaff). Ko e mohuku ʻoku lava tupu mita ʻe 4 ʻi olunga, ʻoku vaoa mo e taʻefiemaʻu. Ko hono ngaahi ʻuhinga tatau: Megathyrsus maximus mo Urochloa maxima.

Hingoa ʻi he ngaahi lea kehe

• vao kini (lea fakahaʻamoa)
• tinikarāti, tine (lea fakakuki)

Tataku

• https://web.archive.org/web/20070718160316/http://www.hear.org/pier/species/panicum_maximum.htm
• Hokohoko ngaahi ʻakau; Vaʻa fekumi ngoue Vainī
• Tongan dictionary; C.M. Churchward
• Plants of Tonga; T.G. Yuncker; BPB bulletin 220, Honolulu 1959

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