 Haupia
<beans@smithfarms.com> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 03:45:02 -0000, "RI Kanaka"
> <rhodeislandkanakaDELETETHISm> wrote:
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>> <beans@smithfarms.com> wrote in message
>> news:1175899801-sch@news.lava.net...
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>> My guess is that, although the first Hawaiians brought coconut plants
>> with them, they also probably found the shores of Hawaii already
>> covered
>> with coconut and other palm plants that millenia earlier had drifted
>> across the Pacific as seeds from other distant lands. Pretty hardy
>> seed, the coconut.
> My husband the historian says there was no proof of that despite what
> we would have imagined. Early visitors remarked that coconuts were
> not nearly as numerous here as they were in the more southern islands.
>
> We are close to the northern range of where Coco nuts would grow.
>
> aloha,
> beans
> roast beans to kona to email
> farmers of Pure Kona
As I said, it's "my guess..." What we need is some ship carrying 60,000
pairs of Nike shoes to spill its cargo in the South Pacific and wait and
see if any end up in Hawaii. |