10-03-2017, 04:56 AM
Vic, most of the truly roadside plants are probably not from Hawaii, as vehicles today are a great spreader of non-native plants....
If you only want to collect "appropriate"(native, canoe, non-invasive, wat`eva) plants, the first thing to do is to really get familiar with native plants, canoe plants, and most importantly, invasive non-natives....
As far as transplanting plants from one area of a district (or even an ahupua`a) to another, that IS how plants, both native and canoe, were propagated around the islands. But of course, to correctly do it would be first with an appropriate `olelo.
If you only want to collect "appropriate"(native, canoe, non-invasive, wat`eva) plants, the first thing to do is to really get familiar with native plants, canoe plants, and most importantly, invasive non-natives....
As far as transplanting plants from one area of a district (or even an ahupua`a) to another, that IS how plants, both native and canoe, were propagated around the islands. But of course, to correctly do it would be first with an appropriate `olelo.