Miconia are now Hawaii's No . 1 worry among thousands of alien plants _ a bigger threat than the strawberry guava or the banana poka _ because of their size and fecundity.
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As the larvae grow, they prefer older leaves and bark of a variety of hosts : acacia ( wattle ), tea, mimosa, australian pine, eucalyptus, gmelina, lychee, thuja, rangoon creeper, strawberry guava and many other species.
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On a lonely hilltop on the island of Mauritius, for example, the last stand of Elaeocarpus bojeri holds out, its fruit eaten by a colony of monkeys, its territory overrun by the strawberry guava introduced from Brazil.
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Although the strawberry guava ( " P . littorale " var . " cattleianum " ) has only 25 % of the amount found in more common varieties, its total vitamin C content in one serving ( 90 mg ) still provides 100 % of the Dietary Reference Intake.
