Ohia trees are dying rapidly, Why?

[Midnight Rambler]

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Originally posted by gypsy69

Hawnjigs, I thought similarly for a few years now. (the story is they died naturally-dieoff). We did get 2 or 3 really good rains the last 4 months, since the rain I have seen very few DYING trees. Some say we were in a long drought? yet my bushes never showed it, and 150 year old ohia's died.

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Different ohia varieties are adapted to different conditions. The ones that do well in wet places don't do well in dry ones and vice versa. Also, those that live on lava flows naturally die after ~150-200 years, giving way to a different variety. Are the leaves of your trees fuzzy underneath or hairless? The fuzzy ones are the first to colonize lava flows and usually don't get very big, while the hairless ones come in afterward and eventually become the big forest trees.