ʻŌhai ʻŌhai.
An endangered native shrub with stunning orange-red pea-like flowers and silvery foliage.
ʻŌhai is a federally endangered native Hawaiian shrub with striking orange-red, pea-like flowers and soft silvery-green foliage covered in fine hairs.
It once thrived on dry, sandy and rocky coastlines across all of the main Hawaiian Islands, but has been reduced to a handful of small wild populations by habitat loss, grazing animals, and invasive plants.
Today ʻōhai is the focus of intensive conservation work — seeds are collected and grown out at native plant nurseries (including ours), then outplanted at protected coastal restoration sites.
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