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Flower: Pua aloalo or maʻo hau hele Hibiscus brackenridgei A. Gray Also known as the native yellow hibiscus [8] Insect: Pulelehua Vanessa tameamea: Also known as the Kamehameha butterfly [9] Land mammal: ʻŌpeʻapeʻa Lasiurus cinereus semotus: Also known as the Hawaiian hoary bat [10] Mammal ʻĪlioholoikauaua [a] Neomonachus schauinslandi
It is known as ʻilima or ʻāpiki in Hawaiian [3] and as kio in Marshallese, [4] te kaura in Kiribati, idibin ekaura in Nauruan, [5] and akatā in Tuvalu. [6] In Hawaiian religion, the ʻilima flowers are associated with Laka, the goddess of the hula, and the plant's prostrate form with Pele's brother, Kane-ʻapua, the god of taro planters. [7]
The Flora of the Hawaiian Islands and neighboring islands in the north-central Pacific, and the northern Polynesia region of the Oceania ecozone. This category includes native flora taxa. Taxa of the lowest rank are always included.
Hibiscadelphus distans - Less than 200 wild individuals occur above the Koaiʻe River on Kauaʻi, but it sets abundant, fertile seeds in cultivation.; Hibiscadelphus giffardianus - In 1911 Joseph Rock discovered a single tree at Kīpuka Puaulu, now part of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park.
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The flowers last for a single day, starting out white and fading to pink in the afternoon. [6] Though flowers bloom and close over the course of one day, the plant itself can live longer than 5 years. [7] H. arnottianus of Oʻahu and Molokaʻi and H. waimeae are the only Hawaiian hibiscuses that have white flowers. [8]
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