Most of Oahu’s dead and dying coconut trees will not be replaced until the population of voracious coconut rhinoceros beetles ...
Tamara Sherrill, Maui Nui Botanical Gardens executive director, said ulu enthusiasts appreciate how versatile breadfruit can be ... event is that we have one tree, one species, and it can produce ...
may know as much about breadfruit, or ulu, as anyone. And her mission is to use the nutritious, multipurpose trees to develop sustainable agriculture, crop diversity ...
If we’re making chowder, breadfruit!” At one time, thousands of ulu trees dotted Lahaina. The footprint of the burn zone today resembles the same footprint of a place known in Hawaiian history ...
The wood from ‘ulu trees is light in weight and was multipurpose in ancient Hawaii. The National Tropical Botanical Garden’s Breadfruit Institute at Kahanu Gardens in Hana grows almost 100 ...
and an otea breadfruit tree can thrive and produce a hefty number of fruits in soils that would be too salty for other breadfruit varieties. Another breadfruit variant, ulu fiti, comes from the Fijian ...
It is called breadfruit, and it is undergoing a quiet revival in its Pacific island and Caribbean homelands, where people are hoping that the tree, and its produce, will thrive in a climate ...
The “tree of life” truly did provide. Later, ’ulu gained another name, breadfruit, given by Europeans who smelled bread as the fruit roasted in the fire. It continues to be an important food ...
Follow the mythological origins of ulu its journey from Tahiti to Hawaii on Polynesian voyaging canoes and modern efforts to revitalize breadfruit ... vision of the ulu tree playing an important ...
LAHAINA, Hawaii — For people around the world, the green leaves that sprouted from a scorched, 150-year-old banyan tree in the heart of devastated Lahaina symbolized hope following Maui’s ...
An ulu (breadfruit) orchard. Cattle graze the rolling hills. View of the rodeo arena. An aerial view. The borders of Hana Ranch mapped out in a rendering.