Browsing Department of Botany by Author "Wichman, Juliana Mikioi"

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Olonā (Touchardia latifolia Gaud.) : Cultivating the wild populations for sustainable use and revitalization of cultural Hawaiian practices

Wichman, Juliana Mikioi (Botany Department, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2012)

Olonā (Touchardia latifolia Gaudich.) is an endemic Hawaiian plant used by the Hawaiians to make some of the strongest cordage in the world. Within the ahupua'a of Hā'ena on Kaua'i, there are wild populations of olonā ...