Food

Coconut milk in shell

Coconut milk in shell by the sea

Aloe

Aloe Aloe has orange or yellow flowers and is in the Agavaceae Family Aloe vera are used in alternative medicines and in home first aid to relieve skin discomforts by soothing minor burns, wounds, and various skin conditions.

Aloe

Aloe plant flower Aloe has orange or yellow flowers and is in the Agavaceae Family Aloe vera are used in alternative medicines and in home first aid to relieve skin discomforts by soothing minor burns, wounds, and various skin conditions.

Aloe flowers

Aloe plant flower Aloe has orange or yellow flowers and is in the Agavaceae Family Aloe vera are used in alternative medicines and in home first aid to relieve skin discomforts by soothing minor burns, wounds, and various skin conditions.

Aloe

Aloe Aloe has orange or yellow flowers and is in the Agavaceae Family Aloe vera are used in alternative medicines and in home first aid to relieve skin discomforts by soothing minor burns, wounds, and various skin conditions.

Alow flowers by the sea

Aloe Aloe has orange or yellow flowers and is in the Agavaceae Family Aloe vera are used in alternative medicines and in home first aid to relieve skin discomforts by soothing minor burns, wounds, and various skin conditions.

P1051652 banana

100224 160238 p

Apple Banana Trees

Apple Banana Trees

040409 100429 800

060811 053724 p

Banana tree Apple Banana flower Haleiwa, North Shore of O'ahu, Hawai'i

Banana

noni

Banana tree Apple Banana flower Apple Bananas, are the BEST! Once you've eaten these sweet, firm cute little bananas, you won't want a 'regular' banana again. They grow wild all over Hawai'i, and if you aren't lucky enough to have one in your yard, hopefully your friend does. Haleiwa, North Shore of O'ahu, Hawai'i

040409 100451 p

Apple Banana flower

Apple Banana flower

050130 051823 p

040608 054448 p

Apple Banana Flower

Apple Banana Flower

Banana

noni

Banana

noni

Banana

noni

Avocado hanging on a branch One of the few on this tree - I'll have to go back when the other trees bear fruit. 100322.145041

Avocado

Avocado Haleiwa's Farmers Market

Avocado

Avocado

Avocado Trees 100322.150141

100207 090039 p

Parsley

Parsley

Breadfruit or 'Ulu

Breadfruit known as 'ulu in Hawaii. 'Ulu is an "attractive, delicious, nutritious, abundant, affordable, and culturally appropriate food which addresses Hawai'i's food security issues." http://hawaiihomegrown.com/breadfruit-hooulu-ka-ulu

Breadfruit tree

Cocoa bean hanging on a tree Theobroma cacao; criolla sterculicae Foster Botanical Garden Honolulu, Hawai'i

Cacao seed pod

Cacao seed pod on a tree

Cacao trees

Cacao trees

070503 055159 730 a

080824 175807 000c

080824 175816 000 a

050828 032653 200b

160406 225901

Coconuts

Coconuts

Sunset Beach Palm trees North Shore, Oahu, Hawaii January, 2007

Sunset Point palm tree on the bluff North Shore, Oahu, Hawaii 2009

160416 122903 p

160416 010435 p

160416 130224 p

160416 124952 p

Sunset BeachCoconut drink with a pink plumeria flower lei Sitting on a lava rock at the beachNorth Shore of O'ahu

Coconut on the beach

Coconut being tossed onto the white sandy beach by the waves Of the more than 1500 species in the Palm family of plants (Palmaceae), the Coconut palm is the best known. A unique tree, with no really close relatives (it is the only member of the genus Cocos), it is considered to be one of the most useful trees in the world. A recent study reported 360 contemporary uses for this tree, half of which were for food. North Shore of O'ahu, Hawai'i