naturalizedPiperaceae

Piper methysticum

kava

Naturalized (non-native)non-native

Introduced and now reproducing on its own in the wild.

Kava or kava-kava (Piper methysticum: Latin "pepper" + Latinized Greek "intoxicating") is a crop of the western Pacific.

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Where documented · 95 ahupuaʻa
documented occurrences · iNaturalist + GBIF · iNaturalist 56 · GBIF 276 records
Honolulu · OʻahuiNat 1 · GBIF 36 ✓
Waikīkī · OʻahuiNat 8 · GBIF 22 ✓
Wailuku · MauiiNat 1 · GBIF 16 ✓
Hāʻena · KauaʻiiNat 4 · GBIF 3 ✓
Waimea · OʻahuiNat 4 · GBIF 2 ✓
Hanakāpīʻai · KauaʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 4 ✓
Kalihiwai · KauaʻiiNat 3 · GBIF 2 ✓
Waiākea · HawaiʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 4 ✓
Keʻanae · MauiiNat 2 · GBIF 2 ✓
Kawaipapa · MauiiNat 2 · GBIF 2 ✓
Heʻeia · OʻahuiNat 3 · GBIF 1 ✓
Nānākuli · OʻahuiNat 1 · GBIF 2 ✓
ʻŌlaʻa · HawaiʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 2 ✓
Kahana · OʻahuiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓