The traditional buildings of Tuvalu used plants and trees from the native broadleaf forest, including timber from ''pouka'' (''Hernandia peltata''); ''ngia'' or ''ingia'' bush (''Pemphis acidula''); ''miro'' (''Thespesia populnea''); ''tonga'' (''Rhizophora mucronata''); ''fau'' or ''fo fafini'', or woman's fibre tree (''Hibiscus tiliaceus''). Fibre is from coconut; ''ferra'', native fig (''Ficus aspem''); ''fala'', screw pine or ''Pandanus''. The buildings were constructed without nails and were lashed together with a plaited sennit rope that was handmade from dried coconut fibre.