- Hard wood used for kapa beaters, poi boards, spears and canoe gunwales
- Hawaiian name = Lehua, Ohia Lehua
- In ancient times, a lehua was the first and finest warrior sent into battle
- Native Hawaiians observed that on a barren lava flow, this was first tree to establish
- Can be a creeping shrub or tree
- Firework-burst flowers
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