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Shrubs <br />Mimosa pigra — catclaw mimosa <br />• Thicket -forming, prickly shrub to 20 ft tall <br />• Large recurved prickles on stems <br />• Mimosa -like compound leaves, sensitive <br />• Flowers pink in small rounded clusters <br />• Fruits flat brown hairy segmented pods <br />Rhodomyrtus tomentosa — downy rose myrtle <br />• Evergreen shrub to 6 ft tall <br />• Young stems soft hairy <br />• Leaves opposite, entire, soft hairy below <br />• Flowers rose -pink, with 5 petals each <br />• Fruit a round, sweet -fleshed, purple berry <br />Scaevola sericea — beach naupaka <br />• Large shrub, forming dense mounds <br />• Leaves alternate, crowded near stem tips <br />• Leaf blades coarse, shiny, with curved edges <br />• Flowers white to pale lilac, "half -flowers" <br />• Fruits round, shin white <br />Senna pendula — climbing cassia <br />• Sprawling evergreen shrub to 14 ft tall <br />• Stems somewhat zigzag, sparsely hairy <br />• Leaves compound with 3-6 leaflet pairs <br />• Flowers yellow, 5 petaled, near stem tips <br />• Pods brown, slender, cylindric, glabrous <br />9 <br />