Keawekapu

Oil on canvas 14x18

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In 1828 Kiawe was introduced to the Hawaiian Islands by Father Alexis Bachelot, the head of the first catholic mission to Hawaii. He planted a tree on the grounds of the Catholic Mission on Fort Street in Honolulu that he had raised from the seed of a Peruvian tree growing in the royal gardens of Paris. By 1840, the progeny of that single tree became the principal shade trees of Honolulu and were already spreading to the dry leeward plains on all of the neighbor islands.