Trip Report: Bloomin’ WiliWili

To most folks, wiliwili trees don’t look like much.  Most of the year, they look half dead with a sprinkling of leaves scattered atop an otherwise empty crown.  Thankfully, the good folks at the Waikoloa Dry Forest Initiative understand that Hawaii’s native wiliwili trees, Erythrina sandwicensis, along with other key trees, shrubs and plants that make up our disappearing lowland dry forests are truly worth getting excited about.  Last Saturday marked the 2nd in our series of community trips, Bloomin’ WiliWili, to see the regal wiliwili trees in all of their glory.

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