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	<description>Living and hiking on the island of Kauai</description>
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		<title>Hylocereus monacanthus</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 21:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while ago, a contributor to Wikipedia asked me to release a photo of a plant I took at the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Lawai. In an post about visiting there after hours, I posted a picture of a night-blooming cereus, which it turns out is somewhat rare, both the particular species of that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banana Virus</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember when I was a tourist on Kaua&#8217;i, I was a bit concerned about these big signs posted on both highways into Lihue. I&#8217;d never heard of a banana virus before, and quarantines are usually serious affairs. Then after driving past them all the time, you forget about them and don&#8217;t even notice them. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beach at Tunnels</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some photos of the beach near Tunnels, from last year. Actually, I&#8217;m not quite sure what this place is called. It&#8217;s about half-way between the area marked Kepuhi Point and Ha&#8217;ena Point on the map. I&#8217;ve often heard of Kepuhi beach as the Hawaiian name for Tunnels, but the big horseshoe reef that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poisonous Plants of Paradise</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poisonous Plants of Paradise: First Aid and Medical Treatment of Injuries from Hawaii&#8217;s Plants by Susan Scott and Craig Thomas, MD. Available at the Kapaa library (and possibly others), H 615.952 Sc under Hawaiiana. This is a fascinating book if you&#8217;re interested in the outdoors and/or the specificities of flora in our isolated islands. Written [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sonja&#8217;s Homegrown Lilikoi Soufflé  Pie</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Instead of going straight to the recipe, this pie has a bit of a story. First of all, lilikoi are passion fruit, also called maracuyá or granadilla in their native South America. The Hawaiian name comes from the valley where they first went wild on Oahu. They have since invaded all islands and several varieties [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second Seed of Kanaloa</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the private NTBG tour with the Sierra Club yesterday, we stopped near the nursery where they propagate native Hawaiian plants. While the gardens contain plants from all over the world, the recent focus of their work has been to grow, study, and save the plants that are endemic to Hawaii, which means those found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pineapple Flowers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2006 03:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever seen pineapple flowers before? To satisfy your horticultural curiosity: Most people know that pineapples grow in Hawaii, it used to be a big industry on Kauai with fields and large canneries in both Kapaa and Lawai. I have read that pineapple flowers are the reason that there are no hummingbirds in Hawaii. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kuilau Ridge Trail</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2006 07:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We went hiking this past Sunday on the Kuilau Ridge trail, perhaps the most underrated trail on Kauai. Big hikers rarely go there because it&#8217;s an easy out-and-back trail, less than two miles each way, with 600 feet of elevation gain in all. It starts at the Arboratum at the end of Highway 580 in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wonderful World of Bromeliads</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2005 07:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bromeliads are a family of non-native plants that grow very well in Hawaiian gardens and don&#8217;t spread out into nature. They are very colorful, their leaves come in many patterns, and they bloom in many different ways. The pineapple is a bromeliad. They seem to bloom at the end of summer, after the first autumn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trees of Kokee</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2005 07:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One more post about last Saturday&#8217;s trip. Of course we saw trees up in Kokee, the forest with many native trees is one of the main attractions there. However, we ran across two interesting non-native trees. In the early 1900&#8242;s wild cattle roamed the uplands and destroyed much of the native forest, causing erosion. The [...]]]></description>
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