Experience paradise through handcrafted island beauty. The leaf has a dark green hue, and its scent is a woodsy fragrance with just a hint of spice and vanilla Maile is a fragrant native vine endemic to all of hawai’i except kaho’olawe and ni’ihau
Photo of Maile Ann Mercado
Maile is a member of the family apocynaceae and genus alyxia
The leaves vary in size, shape, and color ranging from dark to fairly light green.
Maile is also found in montane mesic and wet communities A pacific island vine (alyxia stellata) of the dogbane family with fragrant leaves and bark that are used for decoration and in hawaii for leis The leaves are highly variable in size, shape, and color ranging from dark to fairly light green Maile does well as understory plants with other native species such as ʻōhiʻa, koa, āulu or lonomea, mānele, pāpala kepau, and hāpuʻu
Some forms are good for trellises, others a low growing shrubs. Maile is its hawaiian name, and alyxia oliviformis is its scientific name
