Auwahi Forest Restoration Project

Robert with amazing crops of olopua fruit (Maui name: pua) (Nestegis sandwicensis) about 5,000 fruits total. With even 50% survival, that 2,500 olopua trees. That number of trees multiplied times 2,500 people is hope maoli in a troubled world. Olopua are the backbone of middle elevation leeward forests, they potentially live for centuries, so this is a real treasure that Auwahi's awesome crew, Robert, Ainoa, and Andy collected last week.