Experience paradise through handcrafted island beauty. Some forms are good for trellises, others a low growing shrubs. Maile is a fragrant native vine endemic to all of hawai’i except kaho’olawe and ni’ihau
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Maile is a member of the family apocynaceae and genus alyxia
The leaves vary in size, shape, and color ranging from dark to fairly light green.
Maile is also found in montane mesic and wet communities The leaves are highly variable in size, shape, and color ranging from dark to fairly light green Maile is an indigenous vine or shrub found in wet forests throughout the hawaiian islands The dark green leaves can be easily overlooked by the uninitiated
To create a lei the stems are stripped of bark, which unleashes maile’s fresh, unmistakable scent, and tied into loose open knots. Maile does well as understory plants with other native species such as ʻōhiʻa, koa, āulu or lonomea, mānele, pāpala kepau, and hāpuʻu
