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n., Native hardwood shrubs or trees (Dodonaea 🌐, all species), 30 cm to 10 m high, more or less sticky at branch tips; leaves narrow, 2 to 10 cm long; flowers small; fruit a yellow, red, or brown papery capsule about 1 cm long and with two to four wings.

• Related:
  • Fruit clusters are made into leis with their own leaves or ferns and worn in the hair.
  • A boast of the people of Kaʻū, is: He ʻaʻaliʻi au, ʻaʻohe makani e hina ai, I am an ʻaʻaliʻi shrub, no wind can push me over.
  • Also ʻaʻaliʻi kū makani (ʻaʻaliʻi standing [in] wind), ʻaʻaliʻi kū ma kua (ʻaʻaliʻi standing in back).
• References:
  • See similar ex., ʻulaʻa.
  • Neal 536–7, FS57.