Sunstone Press Native trees and shrubs of the hawaiian islands: an extensive study guide, paperback/samuel h. lamb

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This extensive study gives botanical data about the trees and shrubs of Hawaii with a clarity that can be easily understood by everyone.

The author describes the plants, gives common names, mainland equivalents--if there are any--and tells their uses in the changing world of the Pacific Islands.

Woven into his narrative are also folk stories about the plants.

Of the Naupaka, he writes: Hawaiian legend says that the half flower came about when a scorned maiden grabbed a flower and tore it in half.

She told her lover she would not see him again until he brought her a full flower, but he never did.

From that time on, Naupakas have had only half a flower and the lover died of a broken heart.