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Find the perfect pono plant for your landscape, search by color, growth form, and more!

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  • Medinilla scortechinii

    medinilla

    Designation: Evaluate
    Score: 5
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  • Megaskepasma erythrochlamys

    red cloak

    Designation: High Risk
    Score: 6
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  • Megathyrsus maximus

    Guinea grass, green panic grass

    Designation: High Risk
    Score: 17
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  • Melaleuca alternifolia

    narrow leaf paperbark, narrow leaf teatree, teatree

    Designation: High Risk
    Score: 7
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  • Melaleuca bracteata

    black teatree, river tea-tree, white cloudtree

    Designation: High Risk
    Score: 9
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  • Melaleuca citrina

    crimson bottlebush, lemon bottle brush, red bottle brush

    Designation: Pono Plant (low risk)
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