Mar 21, 2015 | Paia, Road to Hana Nature, The Road To Hana, Tips and Essential Blog
The fragrant plumeria flower is often associated with the Hawaiian Islands. With its wonderful smell and beautiful blossoms, it is easy to see why the plumeria has been a favorite of lei-makers since Hawaii’s ancient days. The plumeria flower is abundant on...
Mar 19, 2015 | Paia, Road to Hana Nature, The Road To Hana, Tips and Essential Blog
One of the most unusual and striking plants that can be seen along the Hana Highway is the Bird of Paradise flower. This unique flower actually blooms after being pollinated by bird’s feet. That’s right, when a bird lands on the closed flower, the action...
Mar 17, 2015 | Paia, Road to Hana Nature, The Road To Hana, Tips and Essential Blog
A very common and eye catching 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...
Mar 15, 2015 | hibiscus state flower, Paia, Road to Hana Nature, The Road To Hana, Tips and Essential Blog
The famous Hawaiian hibiscus is actually a flowering shrub and is commonly used as a hedge. The yellow hibiscus is Hawaii’s state flower, but our favorite is the rich coral color we see so often on the Road to Hana. If you’re interested in seeing...
Mar 13, 2015 | Paia, Road to Hana Nature, The Road To Hana, Tips and Essential Blog
The Breadfruit tree 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...
Mar 11, 2015 | Paia, Road to Hana Nature, The Road To Hana, Tips and Essential Blog
This tree grows to 60–70 m tall and has a very substantial trunk, up to 3 m in diameter with buttresses, and the leaves are compounded of 5 to 9 leaflets, each up to 20 cm and palm like. An adult tree produces several hundred 15 cm seed pods which contain seeds...
