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We saw orchids and coffee trees; the lacy green fronds of hapuu tree ferns that measured more than a dozen feet tall and wide; paper-bark eucalyptuses that slough sheets of bark from their trunks and exposed roots; and sprawling hau trees—hibiscuses from which ancient Hawaiians made canoes, cordage and even hula skirts.

Surrounding their lanai is a bed of colorful anthuriums, popcorn orchids cradled in a plumeria tree and hapuu ferns.

In time of famine, his servants went through the forest and collected the hapuu, a nourishing fern which then took the place of poi.