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  • Erythrina sandwicensis, commonly known as wiliwili is the only Erythrina endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.

    Chapter 25 1990

  • Besides the small bundles of the long bones, there were full skeletons, tapa-wrapped, lying in one-man, and two - and three-man canoes of precious koa wood, with curved outriggers of wiliwili wood, and proper paddles to hand with the io-projection at the point simulating the continuance of the handle, as if, like a skewer, thrust through the flat length of the blade.

    SHIN-BONES 2010

  • So within the context of this article, weather or not we want to save the wiliwili is not the real issue.

    Why should we save the wiliwili? - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • Obviously, we should not let the wiliwili go extinct willy-nilly. ts not Tim

    Why should we save the wiliwili? - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • Red spider mites are commonly associated with wiliwili.

    Chapter 25 1990

  • Methods for vegetative propagation of Erythrina variegata (Rotar et al. 1986) may be used for wiliwili.

    Chapter 25 1990

  • Besides the small bundles of the long bones, there were full skeletons, tapa-wrapped, lying in one-man, and two - and three-man canoes of precious koa wood, with curved outriggers of wiliwili wood, and proper paddles to hand with the io-projection at the point simulating the continuance of the handle, as if, like a skewer, thrust through the flat length of the blade.

    Shin-Bones 1919

  • Manoa at dawn, and proceeded as far as Mahinauli, in mid-valley, where he rested under a hala (_Pandanus odoratissimus_) tree that grew in the grove of wiliwili (_Erythrina monosperma_).

    Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends 1887

  • Kawainui ma Koolaupoko, Oahu, the hum of the voices of the Menehunes at Puukapele, Kauai, startled the birds of the pond of Kawainui, at Koolaupoko, Oahu, p. 111. wiliwili tree, Erythrina monosperma, p. 121.

    Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends 1887

  • The head is carved out of some soft wood -- either kukui or wiliwili --- which is covered, as to the hairy scalp, with a dark woven fabric much like broadcloth.

    Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877

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  • A coral tree, Erythrina sandwicensis, of the family Leguminosae, native to Hawaii and Tahiti and bearing clusters of orange flowers. Like this.

    July 30, 2008

  • The erythrina gall wasp decimated Hawaii's wiliwili trees, which bear seeds used to make leis.

    October 10, 2011

  • Damned wasps. They've got some gall. But I didn't know they used bear seeds to make leis.

    Of course the wiliwili situation in Walla-Walla has been critical for some time now.

    October 10, 2011

  • No, no—the bear seeds used to make the leis, back before that erythrasmatic wasp converted the trees to metric. Nonetheless, it makes me wiliwili angry.

    October 11, 2011

  • (This sudden riot of Hawaiiousness is very iroquoisy. I just made a joke about Hawaii—I actually reconsidred and changed it to “Polynesian”, but now I know better—based soley on a random stupid metapun. Then I saw the “Hawaii Tours” spam, and now this. Is there a luau* going on about which no one told me?

    * Also, I’ve had an urgent need to use the word luau all evening. Luau luau luau. So much better now.)

    October 11, 2011