Pauahi Ali’i
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Brilliant gold, banded and streaked with dark red. Excellent keeping quality and lemon fragrance is one of the finest. Golden petals painted with streaks of reds. Mild fragrance with light green leaves. Very Different. A very charming deep yellow, streaked with grainy-red lines, 3 ½", sprawling, dense branching, light to moderate production, stalk is strong red, smooth, upright, loose clusters, petals are elliptical with pointed tips, dark red bands on back, creating fiery orange/red color, keeping quality good, sweet mild frangipani fragrance. Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop (1831 - 1884), the great-granddaughter of King Kamehameha I. She was the last heir of the Bishop Estate and the person for whom the Bishop Museum at 1525 Bernice Street in Honolulu, is named after. Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, who bequeathed her entire estate for the establishment of a school to educate Hawaiian children highlighting the history and culture of the Native Hawaiian people. Her endowment for the Kamehameha School continues to support the largest independent pre-kindergarten through grade twelve school system in the United States. Named in honor of Bernice Pauahi Bishop on the 150th anniversary of her birth. Bright rainbow with orange yellow, red and pink with grainy red marking, mild fragrance. Lei quality over 12 days. Has a problem with black tip and mites. Stingy bloomer, but nice when it does bloom. Fussy grower. Doesn't like too much water. Brilliant gold with wide, dark red bands on front and back with a dark red center. 3 1/4” and heavy texture with a very good keeping quality. Fine lemon fragrance. Excellent keeping quality, a strong frangipani fragrance, and super colorful 3.5". Hard to root. Brilliant pinkish-red with yellow orange toward center, red streak on the petals, dark red bands on front and back with a dark red center. Heavy texture with a very good keeping quality, light sweet lemon fragrance. Weird, awful imo growth habit: narrow branches, not thick so it grows kind of like Aztec Gold or Kaneohe Sunset.
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