Fast Facts:
Sugarcane takes two years to mature. One ton of water is needed
to produce a single pound of sugar.
Heliconia range from 3' to 20' and come in nearly every color
of the rainbow.
Versatile green ti leaf is a good luck symbol believed to keep
evil spirits away and is often found planted by the entrances to homes
in Hawaii.
The Malaysian starfruit tree is actually a native of China and
India.
Hawaii produces the only commercial coffee crop in the United
States.
Kamiya Papaya is a self-pollinating hermaphrodite with both male
and female flowers.
Each trunk of our dwarf Brazilian apple bananas bears only one
stalk in its lifetime.
Taro (kalo) is valued by Polynesian people as a rich source of
carbohydrate and for its medicinal and supernatural powers.
Mango trees take five years to bear fruit but will produce for
100 years.
Guava juice has five times more vitamin C than orange juice.
It takes 300 pounds of pressure per square inch to crack the ¼"-thick
shell of the Macadamia nut.
No machine has yet been invented that can husk a coconut, but
take our tour and see your driver do it by hand in under 60 seconds!
Pineapples ripen from the bottom up. If your finger can pierce
the "eye," don't buy it. Avoid pineapples with wet bottoms and
strong smell. They're over-ripe.
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