Experience paradise through handcrafted island beauty. While related to plumeria, the precious fragrance of maile (alyxia stellata) is only revealed when gatherers ʻuʻu, carefully strip bark and attached leaves from woody pith, and scented milky sap is freed. Maile is a fragrant native vine endemic to all of hawai’i except kaho’olawe and ni’ihau
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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 The meaning of maile is 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 For centuries, leis made from the shiny fragrant leaves of maile (alyxia oliviformis) have been used to communicate love, respect, blessing, enduring devotion, reverence, friendship, and a desire for peace
Maile is an indigenous vine or shrub found in wet forests throughout the hawaiian islands. 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. Legendary story about 4 maile sisters who sponsored hula, picture on the left shows maile berries.
