Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_streptosolen_jamesonii
Marmalade Bush
Streptosolen jamesonii
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About Marmalade Bush
A much-branched evergreen shrub, sometimes climbing, with small dark-green wrinkled ovate-to-elliptic leaves and smooth margins. Numerous terminal flower clusters carry shining orange-yellow to orange-red trumpets with spirally twisted lower tubes and five blunt lobes. Small smooth light-brown capsules remain largely enclosed in the persistent calyx and contain brown cuboid-to-ovoid seeds. Established wild occurrence warrants observations of occupied cover, reproductive plants and new recruits. These measurements can test persistence and spread. The reviewed accounts do not quantify an island-wide effect on Kauaʻi native vegetation.
Kauaʻi evidence
Generated media is not occurrence evidence. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Streptosolen jamesonii
- Common names
- marmalade bush · fire bush
- Other names
- Streptosolen jamesonii · marmalade bush · fire bush
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Introduced
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-07
- Evidence limits
- Island-level public occurrence only. Preserve the characteristic twisted basal flower tubes and glandular hairs. Bird-pollination observations in another region are not Kauaʻi measurements.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- Not yet assessed
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Shrub or subshrub; shrub
Threats and conservation
- Monitoring
- Occupied area and vegetation cover; Mature plants and new recruits; Reproductive plants and fruiting frequency. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
- Data gaps
- Current island extent and population trend · Measured local ecological effects
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not yet assessed
- Seasonal description
- A much-branched evergreen shrub, sometimes climbing, with small dark-green wrinkled ovate-to-elliptic leaves and smooth margins. Numerous terminal flower clusters carry shining orange-yellow to orange-red trumpets with spirally twisted lower tubes and five blunt lobes. Small smooth light-brown capsules remain largely enclosed in the persistent calyx and contain brown cuboid-to-ovoid seeds. Established wild occurrence warrants observations of occupied cover, reproductive plants and new recruits. These measurements can test persistence and spread. The reviewed accounts do not quantify an island-wide effect on Kauaʻi native vegetation.