07-09-2015, 12:50 PM
Some trees along the highway between leilani and pahoa were planted about a decade ago. They look to be thriving and doing well, while the Ohia are frying and dying. The trees look to have been planted as a project or experiment of some sort, anyone know anything about these trees? They may be a great tree to replace the indigenous Ohia, sooner the better? Good thing land in puna is cheap. Some folks may have bought 50 + acres of a beautiful ohia rain forest, now some have 50+ acres of dead, or dying ohia and plenty of staghorn.