{"id":2067,"date":"2014-07-06T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickichenwrites.com\/?p=2067"},"modified":"2014-07-05T13:32:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T20:32:54","slug":"taking-root-on-maui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickichenwrites.com\/wordpress\/travel\/taking-root-on-maui\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Root on Maui"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_0361\"<\/a>When we visited Maui last week, this was the view from our deck at the Kaanapali Royal<\/a>: croton, plumeria, and coconut palms.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_0299\"<\/a>None of them are native to Hawaii. The colored croton is from Indonesia. The plumeria <\/a>was originally found in Central and South America. And the coconut palm<\/a>, although its origin is a subject of debate, didn’t grow on the Hawaiian Islands until the Polynesians brought it there.<\/p>\n

\"breadfruit<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s another tree the Polynesians introduced,<\/a> the breadfruit tree. This photo is a close-up. Breadfruit trees are very large.<\/p>\n

\"pandanus\"<\/a>The Polynesians also brought pandanus and sugarcane (in the background).<\/p>\n

\"IMG_0333\"<\/a>They needed taro for their poi, so they brought that too. And banana plants, of course. Still, it’s hard to imagine those early settlers having room for all those plants, trees and pigs on their canoes. I wonder if they argued about what they could bring and what they would have to leave behind. By the time they set off, their canoe must have looked like a Polynesian-style Noah’s ark.<\/p>\n

\"banyan<\/a>The largest and most famous banyan tree in Maui<\/a> was brought from India in 1873 by William Owen Smith. He planted it in Lahaina’s Courthouse Square, and now the one tree covers almost a city block (two-thirds of an acre). The banyan I photographed here is much smaller. I don’t know how I could have taken a picture of the enormous tree in Courthouse Square.<\/p>\n

\"Native<\/a>The native prickly poppy is one plant that was growing in Hawaii before the Polynesians came.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_0340\"<\/a>Here’s another native plant. We found it at the Botanical Garden in Wailuku. I didn’t catch the name, so let’s just call it the “bad-hair-day plant.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_0310\"<\/a>This is a shot from Iao Valley State Monument. Maybe Hawaii in its pristine state looked something like this.<\/p>\n

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