Maui County water supply director John Stufflebean wants a new ordinance that provides a reduced rate for qualified native ...

If not, the plant bottle brush has similar flowers to Ohia and has proven to be a way to replace Ohia’s presence in leimaking. One of the ways that people can help ohia is to grow it in and ...

MANOA, OAHU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Deep in the quiet Manoa Valley, the fight to protect the sacred Ohia plant plays on. Researchers at the University of Hawaii's Lyon Arboretum seed conservation lab ...

Oct. 18—The severity of the ohia rust disease in one of Hawaii's critically endangered plants can be reduced by using a "smoothie " of fungi found in leaf tissue, a recent study has shown.

Ohia is both a pioneer — the first to grow on new lava — and a protector — hosting and sustaining birds, insects, and plants throughout Hawaii. Ohia is at home in nearly every terrestrial ...

Just “feed the soil” and your plants will grow well, I reply. We planted ohia lehua from 6-inch or 1-gallon pots into the ground and watered daily. They grew really well. Recently I had to ...

The disease is easily spread by moving ohia plants and plant parts like posts, mulch and green waste. The disease may also be transmitted by pruning equipment, The Board of Agriculture has now ...

A ban on shipping ohia plants and soil from Hawaii Island is now permanent. The quarantine restrictions were established as emergency interim rules in August 2015 in order to prevent the spread ...

The quarantine—in place since 2015—restricts the movement of ohia plants and plant parts, including flowers, leaves, seeds, stems, twigs, cuttings, untreated wood, logs, mulch, green waste and ...

HILO (KHON2) — Tuesday, April 22, was Earth Day; and it is also Native Hawaiian Plant Month. One of our most important and beloved native flora is the ʻohia that continues to be threatened by ...