PGV Smelly this AM.

[Midnight Rambler]

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Originally posted by rainyjim

I would believe there are exceptions, when I worked up at the national park I never saw an Ohia with a 3 ft diameter nor heard of such a thing anywhere on the island.

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The very biggest ohia, such as at Hakalau on Mauna Kea, get to be just shy of four feet in diameter. But those are vanishingly rare, and even three feet is extremely rare. And that is on flows 30,000 years old, with deep soil in a "sweet spot" of rain and soil nutrients. Those in Puna don't get anywhere near as big.