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Udeuid

Abebaia udoido

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About Udeuid

Udeuid (Abebaia udoido) is a post-contact introduced tree documented on Kauaʻi through cultivation records. In Palau, udeuid is a culturally important endemic canopy tree and a characteristic mature-forest species whose durable wood and flowers connect it to people and native flying vertebrates. A 2025 USDA Forest Service report documented extensive mortality in its core native range from Ceratocystis manginecans wilt, with yellowing, wilting, inner-bark necrosis, xylem staining and associated bark or ambrosia beetle attack. Those native-range relationships and threats should not be transferred to Kauaʻi: island evidence there supports maintained cultivation only.

Kauaʻi evidence

Taxonomic identity, tree form, diagnostic morphology and island occurrence use the linked reviewed sources. Historical planting, cultivation, naturalization and invasive status are separate. Generated imagery is not occurrence evidence.

Names and classification

Scientific name: Abebaia udoido
Common names: Udeuid · uduiud · udoido · uduidh · auduidh · uduied
Other names: Abebaia udoido · udeuid · uduiud · udoido · uduidh · auduidh · uduied · Manilkara udoido Kaneh.
Record type: Species

Kauaʻi occurrence and status

Kauaʻi occurrence: Recorded on Kauaʻi
Origin: Introduced
Conservation status: Not yet assessed
Evidence date: 2026-10-06
Evidence limits: Current extent is unassessed; public locality is island level only.

Habitat and ecology

Habitats: Not yet assessed
Food and resource needs: Not yet assessed
Reproduction: Flowers are borne in small axillary fascicles, with two or three white, downward-facing flowers on long reflexed pedicels; fruiting in Palau is recorded in April and July–September. Ripe red berries contain the seed; Palauan field sources report fruit bats visiting the flowers for nectar and birds and fruit bats using the tree as a food resource. Propagation or natural recruitment has not been documented for the Kauaʻi collection.
Shelter: Not yet assessed
Growth form: Evergreen latex-bearing tree, sometimes multistemmed

Threats and conservation

Monitoring: Not yet assessed
Data gaps: Current population extent and trajectory · Additional species-specific ecological and conservation sources

Process and seasonal context

Seasonal timing: Not yet assessed
Seasonal description: Udeuid (Abebaia udoido) is a post-contact introduced tree documented on Kauaʻi through cultivation records. In Palau, udeuid is a culturally important endemic canopy tree and a characteristic mature-forest species whose durable wood and flowers connect it to people and native flying vertebrates. A 2025 USDA Forest Service report documented extensive mortality in its core native range from Ceratocystis manginecans wilt, with yellowing, wilting, inner-bark necrosis, xylem staining and associated bark or ambrosia beetle attack. Those native-range relationships and threats should not be transferred to Kauaʻi: island evidence there supports maintained cultivation only.

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