Plants for Fragrance

[Mitzi M]

Believe it or not, male halas produce a sweetly fragrant flower. Puna's fragrant halas are even mentioned in ancient mele. Anther fragrant native lovely is Alahe'e (Psydrax odorata). It can make a nice hedge or small to medium tree and has small clusters of very fragrant white flowers. They are also native to upper and lower Puna. I'm partial to gardenias as well. The native, G. brighamii, would probably do well for you and smells divine (and I happened to notice it is one of the plants on Jane's Whitecloud Nursery website) I also just discovered a really neat (but non-native) trailing groundcover gardenia that gets about 8"-1' high and has 2" flowers that look and smell just like larger gardenias (G.augusta). There's even a variegated form. Sometimes Tamala has that one at Maku'u market, first row, by the parking lot.

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Edited by - mitzi m on 09/03/2007 12:11:01