Hio or Pohole (Maui name)Athyriaceae (Lady-fern family)Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands (All the main islands except Niihau and Kahoolawe)Oahu, Hawaii, USA (Cultivated)Early Hawaiians ate the croziers, seen here, and young fronds often with poi or pae, native freshwater shrimps.Today, they are still gathered in forests and make a pleasant green salad.Fronds
www.flickr.com/photos/dweickhoff/15734349054/in/photolist...Ka ia lauoho loloa o ka ina (The long-haired fish of the land). A Hawaiian proverb referring to any vegetable, including hio, eaten with poi. Poetically, leaves are the oho or lauoho, hair, of plants. (lelo Noeau: Proverbs and Poetical Sayings, Mary K. Pukui 1983)EtymologyThe generic name Diplazium is from the Greek, diplazios, double, alluding to the "doubling" of sori often seen in this genus where they are found on both sides of the veins.The specific epithet sandwichianum refers to the "Sandwich Islands," as the Hawaiian Islands were once called, and named by James Cook on one of his voyages in the 1770s. James Cook named the islands after John Montagu (The fourth Earl of Sandwich) for supporting Cook's voyages.
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