Apr 29, 2014 | avocados, Road to Hana Nature, The Road To Hana, Tips and Essential Blog
The avocado is widely considered a vegetable, since it is commonly used in salads, however, it is actually a fruit that tastes like a vegetable, and most markets display it with other typical fruits. The rich, pale yellow-green flesh of the pear-shaped fruit has a...
Apr 27, 2014 | Paia, Road to Hana Nature, The Road To Hana, Tips and Essential Blog
This is a strikingly beautiful tree with foot-long glossy leaves with deeply indented lobes and pale green fruits, the size of a baby’s head, that are formed from hundreds of individual flowers. The fruit itself is only edible when cooked, deep fried “chips” or...
Apr 25, 2014 | plumeria, Road to Hana Nature, The Road To Hana, Tips and Essential Blog
A delectably perfumed, yellow and white blossomed flower, found in abundance around the island. This distinctly tropical scent is most prevalent at dusk, dawn and during the mid-day heat. Ladies can tuck one behind their ear, right ear signifies “taken” and left ear ...
Apr 23, 2014 | Paia, Road to Hana Nature, The Road To Hana, Tips and Essential Blog
A common sight on Maui is the beautiful and colorful Bougainvillea tree. A symbol of tropical beauty it comes from the Nyetayinacce family of small trees, vines and shrubs. It bears a galabra or “paper flower” so called because of its paper-like bracts. The trees can...
Apr 21, 2014 | kukui nuts, Road to Hana Nature, The Road To Hana, Tips and Essential Blog
Resembling tough shelled walnuts, the kukui nut is indigenous to Hawaii. Hundreds of years ago Hawaiians discovered that when the shells were removed from Kukui nuts, and the kernels lightly roasted, clear oil could be pressed out. This was an excellent penetrating...
Apr 19, 2014 | Paia, Road to Hana Nature, The Road To Hana, Tips and Essential Blog
In Hawaii passion fruit is locally called lilikoi and comes in yellow and purple varieties. It can be cut in half and the seeds scooped out with a spoon or your tongue. It is used as a dessert flavoring for malasadas, cheesecakes, cookies and ice cream and...
