Project Olonā

Cultural Use: 

        - It's milky sap was used to be used to paint canoes.

        - Used as firewood

 

Medicinal Use:

        - ʻAkoko can be used to feed infinats and small children

        - Insure Mother's Milk

        - Can be used as ointment

        - Treatment for weakness

 

Enviorement:

        - ʻAkoko's prostate form is endemic to the islands of Maui and                Hawai'i

        - The Shrub form can be found in Kaua'i, Ni'ihau, and Nihoa

        - The subspecies of 'Akoko that has narrower leaves can be                    found on O'ahu