These plant species grow in the salt spray and loose sand of beaches and the moist lowland slopes of volcanoes. They flourish in poor soils and under very harsh climatic conditions.
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Trunk and outer bark of the Candlenut Tree (Aleurites moluccana), Kanaha Beach, north Maui.
Indian Banyan Tree (Ficus benghalensis); trunk and aerial roots. Old Courthouse Park, Lahaina, west Maui. Although it is an introduced, cultivated species, many individual trees and stands exist throughout the Hawaiian Islands.
Indian Banyan Tree (Ficus benghalensis); trunk and aerial roots. Old Courthouse Park, Lahaina, west Maui. Although it is an introduced, cultivated species, many individual trees and stands exist throughout the Hawaiian Islands.
Indian Banyan Tree (Ficus benghalensis); trunk and aerial roots. Old Courthouse Park, Lahaina, west Maui. Although it is an introduced, cultivated species, many individual trees and stands exist throughout the Hawaiian Islands.
Indian Banyan Tree (Ficus benghalensis); trunk and aerial roots. Old Courthouse Park, Lahaina, west Maui. Although it is an introduced, cultivated species, many individual trees and stands exist throughout the Hawaiian Islands.
Indian Banyan Tree (Ficus benghalensis); trunk and aerial roots. Old Courthouse Park, Lahaina, west Maui. Although it is an introduced, cultivated species, many individual trees and stands exist throughout the Hawaiian Islands.
Koa Haole (Leucaena leucocephala) on a beach at Honokeana Bay near Napili, west Maui. This aggressive weed is one of the most common plants seen on Maui and the neighbor islands. TO learn more about this plant, go to "Maui's Beautiful Weeds: Koa Haole" at (http://mauimike6.wordpress.com/2008/05/11/mauis-beautiful-weeds-koa-haoli/.
The exterior of a dense thicket of Koa Haole trees (Leucaena leucocephalus). On the slopes of the Haleki'i-Pihana heiaus, north of Kahului, north Maui.
A variety of Koa Haole (Leucaena leucocephalus) displaying a yellow flower head. Haleki'i-Pihana Heiau State Monument, near Wailuku, north Maui.
Trunk and outer bark of the Candlenut Tree (Aleurites moluccana), Kanaha Beach, north Maui.
Trunk and outer bark of the Candlenut Tree (Aleurites moluccana), Kanaha Beach, north Maui.
Trunk and outer bark of the Candlenut Tree (Aleurites moluccana), Kanaha Beach, north Maui.
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