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CANOE PLANTS

Lanaʻi Elementary

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Canoe Plants Christi Barrow & Lana’i Elementary ADMINISTRATIVE & TECHNICAL SUPPORT University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Student Media Board Mahalo nui loa to Sandy Matsui and Marc Arakaki for their guidance!

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Lana’i Elementary Presents Canoe Plants Christi Barrow As part of their Fourth Grade studies, students at Lanaʝi Elementary School researched plants brought by early Polynesian voyagers.

Once they discovered the description, growing habitat, and ethnobotanical uses of their plant, they wrote poems to honor the plant.

Finally they created illustrations of their plants using oil pastels and black tempera paint.

Materials for the illustrations were provided by Donors Choose sponsors: NEA, Chevron, and Roseanna Vierra.

‘Awa

‘Awa

‘Awa. Heart shaped leaves

‘Awa Brown roots and Green leaves can be Used as a medicine Grows in the wild and grown in Hawaii Does not have many branches A tall shrub It can grow up to 12 feet high Tall as my baby brother Bright like a rainbow I like looking at ‘Awa because I like the color green

‘Awa Black or green Joined Stems Small Like a bush ‘Awa planted in valleys ‘Awa A little sunshine Stayed wet ‘Awa, The root used for drink It helped the injured people

by Emilee

by Makaiah

窶連wa

窶連wa Yellow flowers Heart shaped leaves Green or black stem All different types 窶連wa Needs a little sun Green valleys Stays wet all day 窶連wa Used as a drink Make people sleepy Get relaxed Little or no pain

by Keala

Hala

Hala Grows where the farmers let you grow wild Like a lonely cat in the forest Made into mats, hats by weaving you see Hala 20 feet tall Spread all around the ground Roots everywhere you see Hala Fruit for medicine For the people to be

by Saisha

Hala

Hala Grows mostly on beaches Long green leaves A fruit that is bumpy Hala roots are long And used for medicine Hala leaves are long And used for making mats

by Kelley

Hala

Hala Green leaves grow by the ocean Woven to make Used for steam baths Fruit used as brush to paint pictures

by Ry-Ann

Hau Hau Big leaves And orange flowers Grow on the hau tree Branches of medicine Inner bark In water Floats by itself

by Kawehi

Let me tell you about hau It grows with flowers Some not bloom Farmers Plant to soft soil The leaves get brown Fall Make soil richer The cycle Goes all over again Let me tell you about hau Let me tell you about hau Kites made out of wood Branches Used to make adzes Bark used for cords Cords make nets Nets hold wooden water bowls And gourds Let me tell you about hau

by Keahi

Ipu

Ipu grows Where it is hot and dry Twisty, curvy, vines Tough leaves Rounded heart shape Ipu Brown ipu Tough covering ipu Ipu used for bowls or bottles Ipu used for putting clothing into

Ipu

Ipu Made from ground Moon looks like an egg, Grows where it’s dry When farmers plant seeds Gourd is a different name for ipu

Ipu used for hula For rattles to chant

used for bowls, bottled, drums Musical instrument Hula implement song maker Holds things up Gourds represents earth

by Jiro

by Talia

Kalo

Kalo

Kalo grows in places like South Asia, China, Japan, and Hawaii Kalo grows in patches that have lots of dirt and water sometime kalo is used as medicine we eat the kalo that we pull but first you have to cook it, clean it, then smash it

by Julia

Taro Taro Kalo Kalo Eaten by everyone Eaten at anytime Used in medicine Used in juice Taro Taro Kalo Kalo Turned into poi pounded with a poi pounder Taro Taro Kalo Kalo Cooked by men Pounded on a hollow board Taro Taro Yummy Taro

by Jacob

Ki

Ki shiny flexible leaves older leaves turn yellow giving the flowers stalk energy to grow white or red berries

Taro

taro splash when picked out of the water taro bake when put in the fire

by M.J.

Ki uses for wrapping food can be used for roofs people make necklace Ki grows everywhere in gardens, in forest found in moist gardens about 3 to 12 feet high leaves grow about 4 inches roots can be thick grows in sunlight and planted vertically

by Stephany

Ki

You grow in wet lush forest.

People use your green leafs for wrapping food.

I think your needs are water, food, sun, and air.

You are like green paper.

Wow! Lets plant a plant like that!

by Jonas

Ti

Ti Leaf is used to wrap food, and make ropes to catch fish.

It used to make rain capes and sandals, and sleds for grass sliding.

Women gathered ti leaf

by Aiden

Ko

Ko

sugarcanes are little, small, green plants, sugarcanes grow wild near streams, people used sugarcanes for medicine, people use sugarcanes to eat, some people use leaves of the sugarcanes to cover the inside the walls of a house, some people used sugarcanes flower stem for arrows

by Bryan

As the tiny green leaves sway by streams stalks are different colored but not all the same Valleys, taro patches, mountain slopes it grows everywhere!

Not used for money, used for great food good medicines Good for children darts... also the leaves to cover the inside of their hale walls

by Souina

Kou

Ko

Ko grows everywhere in streams valleys mountain slopes and lots of sunny places Ko used for medicines food sugar,even darts from the stem protection and lots of other uses Ko A tall green plant With crowned leaves up on the top stems looking like a long millipede Thats Ko sugar cane sweet cane sweet plant

by Makenzie

Kou has orange flowers grown in clusters on short stalks small to medium size grows up 30 to 40 feet height at maturity trunks used to make wooden bowls kapa cloth canoes paddles boxes and back scratchers

by Shawn

Maiʻa

Kukui

Kukui grows at near the beaches.

Trees need sunlight and water.

Leaves help the soil survive.

Kukui oil is used for lighting.

Kukui nut flavors food.

by Hinano

Mai`a grows everywhere in Hawaii Mai`a likes to grow in wet land, and also in farms Large green leaves Mai`a fruit bunch together with skin sticky as candy slimy when it`s young and green Sweet a Hawaiian’s favorite fruit yummy as can be in olden days women couldn’t eat any Mai`a

by Jeff

Maiʻa

Mai’a So yummy to eat Beautiful trees with green leaves Mai’a So green and small as they start to grow, Yellow as it continues to ripen Mai’a Growing around the wetlands, Chopping down the banana bunch Mai’a Making ‘ono banana bread for my ohana to eat

by Madison

Maiʻa

Bananas grew in the wetland. near homes and Taro patches of their banks When a banana tree is planted in a full moon it would grow a lot of fruit Hawaiians used the big leaves and trunks for cooking Mai’a are really sweet

by Taylor

Milo

Milo, round and brown wood, that grows on trees.

Milo, carved into tools, weapons and bowls.

Bowls are used to eat poi.

Milo, is not the only one to make bowls.

Kou is too!

Milo

Milo sprouts at beaches, with heart shaped leaves, leaves turn yellow then brown then fall down.

Milo grows to be eight of me.

Used to create bowls.

Hawaiians made bowls out of wood to put their hair and fingernails.

Polynesians gave the plant to Hawaii.

Grows everywhere except for Kahoolawe.

by Samantha

by Reece

Niu

Anytime is great For a bowl filled with poi Playtime is great when you have a wooden toy Milo

This tree is very well known Grows near beaches This tree Makes tasty fruit Wait for one to fall Go ahead Eat some Coconut meat Drink the juice Good for you This tree had many uses Big Baskets Furniture, Lovely Hats and lastly Shade for hot days This tree can bend in huge winds it’s a very strong palm tree

by Ckristian

by Leisha

Milo

Come see What I found, Little balls Bumpy and round!

Milo When it’s hot, Milo will be found Falling, falling To the ground Milo

Niu

Coconuts Big and green Fills your throat up with delight Coconuts are sweet and delicious Coconut trees Some high and some low You can make a house from the trunk There are a lot of things you can make with Niu

by Andrei

Niu

Niu grow by the beach and sometimes inland.

The trunk of the tree can bend.

Coconut trees can be brown green and it can be short or tall it can be smooth and rough.

Coconut trees can be used in many ways. one of the uses is to make coconut oil.

Some people use coconut oil to make their hair soft and shiny

by Stanley

Niu

Winter it hates For leaves die, Got to say to the yummy recipe Bye-bye.

The recipe invites Niu Niu is coconut, Make a desert Call haupia, but…

Pia you’ll love sweet Pia’s the one, Yummy and could cure You want a ton?!

Noni

Used for medicine and dye thick oval shape deep veined short stem less than ten feet tall small white flowers fruit grows all year round

by Anela

by Danish

Noni

Noni Indian Mulberry Hog Apple or Wild Pine grows in shady forests near mountains and streams used for medicines and dyes juice from noni can remove head lice and uku’s it can also fight cancer

by Jayvie

Noni

Grows throughout Hawaii it is used for medicine and its juice is relaxing and has big leaves It is a mulberry plant and the fruit has little holes and taste not good And the fruit is tan it is also kind of hard and noni looks like no other plant

by Gregory

ʻOhiʻa ʻAi

‘Ohi’a ‘Ai grows in shaded valleys white fruits turn red in the summer when they’re ready to eat.

People plant mountain apple trees. the trunk looks like a star.

The mountain apple tree is about fifty feet high.

Mountain apple a delicious snack to eat.

by Steven

ʻOhiʻa ʻAi

mountain apple so yummy to eat grows in shady valley mountain apple from the mountain from shady valley mountain apples are red when ready to eat Hawaiians smash the leaf to grind medicine to heal people

by Ivan

ʻOhe

ʻOhe springs up everywhere a tall tropical plant with thick light brown stems soft bright green leaves used for making instruments such as a gourd drum ‘ukeke and ‘ohe hano ihu the nose flute ohe is the most serviceable for instruments used for a humankind

by Haley

ʻOhe

‘Ohe used for making bowls, knife and rods they use the bamboo to make combs and nose flute and stamping tools

by Jaymon

ʻOlena

ʻOhe

Bamboo on the school grounds and near the fire station.

Stick-looking Bamboo grows lots of nodes.

The leaves are skinny-looking.

Bamboo is used for knives and fishing rods.

Bamboo is used for stamping tapa and musical instruments.

by Ryder

‘Olena a spicy yellow fruit has a stem to keep the leaves straight and a seeds to let it grow into a born leaf There are lots of leaves.

Leaf stalks always die from fruit to fruit Grows next season in a desert or many worlds.

Used as medicine from crushed root of ‘olena plant

by Jayah

ʻOlena

‘Olena is a plant related to the ginger family.

The roots are like human fingers the size of an adult thumb.

Roots underground are used for medicine and dye.

‘Olena is yellow like the sun.

‘Olena is one of two dozen canoe plants that came to Hawaii.

‘Olena is rarely found today on Earth

ʻOlena

‘Olena big leaves strong roots family with ginger spicy roots crushing becomes medicine when cooked becomes dark orange dye

by Josiah

by Olivia

Pia

Pia

The Pia plant thrive in Asia and Polynesia in shady places. it has gigantic leaves root used to make medicine to stop diarrhea but also a desert mix with coconut milk

Pia Grows throughout Tropical Asia, Polynesia, Australia, and Africa.

Made starch for food and Medicine for people The leaf upper has depressed veins.

The under surface is shiny With yellow veins.

End of growing season Small green and purple flowers Appear at top of pia.

by Ryan

by Carl

Pia

ʻUala

Arrowroot Cure for Diarrhea With long flower Its name is Pia With giant leaves A bumpy smooth stalk Seed couldn’t walk As its seeds travel by wind ocean and droppings of animals

I’m ‘Uala a sweet potato.

I have different colors Which are red and purple.

I grow in water And dirt if fertile.

You could see my life form like a sphere And my leaves are sharp as a spear.

If you want to make sweet potato that are mashed it would be me.

If you want toppings for food I am the one you should be.

by Danish

by Nathanial

ʻUala

‘Uala Grows on mountain slopes, Flatland, holes in lava.

Farmers put leaves around slips for wetness.

If it rains, slips would be washed away.

‘Uala color of purple and brown.

Similar to yam but of different families.

A good medicine and fish bait The sun and water helps the ‘uala grow.

by Evelyn

ʻUala

‘Uala live in mounds and wet places their leaves are heart shapes ‘Uala is an important crop used for poi the tubers are used for food ‘Uala used for floor mats

by Johndel

Uhi

by Allie

Uhi

Grows in valleys, in the wet valleys loves to climb on trees and poles with long vines of their own Farmers put rocks in the holes so their roots don’t grow too long The uhi needs water, sun, soil, and air so they can stay healthy and strong The Uhi is brown and it grows under ground people plant them in bins so it is easy to dig up

by Annika

Uhi

Yam like sweet potatoes grow in wet valleys and garden bins made of dead fern trunks.

Vines grow sideways and climb on trees and poles.

ʻUlu

Villagers love to eat them.

Can yams be used for poi?

Bread fruit grows in kula island Between uka and kai.

The plant is Polynesian, not Thai.

Feels like sandpaper, Not an alligator.

Used for food.

Don’t steal, that’s rude.

Grows from trees, Not underground It will be found. ‘ulu is great.

Did you know it’s our bait?

by Queences

by Sam

ʻUlu

‘Ulu grow in wet valleys and Hawaiians let the ‘ulu grow wild Hawaiians pick up ‘ulu when it’s ripe and they cooked it in imu and poi ‘Ulu trees has other things to use Hawaiians used ‘ulu glue to make a canoe and sandpaper with green ‘ulu ‘Ulu grows in Hawaii, it comes big Hawaiians use the ‘ulu to eat food

by Miyah

Wauke

Wauke, Mulberry Bark grows in wet places.

Brown stems hold up green leaves that fall in the wind.

Wauke, used for clothing.

by Kealohi

Wauke

Wauke leafy brownish and green.

It’s not a little it’s a plant.

Wauke grow in the ground Wauke grow right by rivers right by trees.

Wauke is used for nets, bedding, and cloth.

Wauke is a cool plant because it’s used for paper

by Dylan

Wauke

you’re eight feet tall you grow in wet places protected by banana leaf fences you’re used to make clothes made from bark kapa your rotten leaves of wauke feed young wauke plants

by Ryan