endemicCibotiaceae
Cibotium glaucum
hāpu‘u pulu
Endemic to Hawaiʻinative
Found naturally nowhere else on Earth.
Cibotium glaucum, the hāpu‘u pulu, is a species of fern in the family Cyatheaceae, native to Hawaii. A slow-growing tree fern typically 6 to 10 ft (2 to 3 m) tall but reaching 25 ft (8 m), it is hardy in USDA zones 10 through 12. Its fiddleheads are the source of the material pulu, which means "mulch" or "padding" in the Hawaiian language. Women used pulu as an absorbent during their menstrual cycles.
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Seasonality
Only 0 phenology-annotated observations exist for this species in Hawaiʻi — too few to describe a season. No window is inferred.
Gallery · 11 · iNaturalist
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Where documented · 49 ahupuaʻa
documented occurrences · iNaturalist + GBIF · iNaturalist 199 · GBIF 297 records
Keauhou · HawaiʻiiNat 86 · GBIF 131 ✓
Keaʻau · HawaiʻiiNat 19 · GBIF 25 ✓
Honuaʻula · HawaiʻiiNat 18 · GBIF 18 ✓
Kaloko · HawaiʻiiNat 11 · GBIF 13 ✓
Waiākea · HawaiʻiiNat 8 · GBIF 15 ✓
ʻŌlaʻa · HawaiʻiiNat 9 · GBIF 14 ✓
Waimea · KauaʻiiNat 5 · GBIF 9 ✓
Humuʻula · HawaiʻiiNat 7 · GBIF 5 ✓
Waimea, Waikoloa · HawaiʻiGBIF 10
Kapāpala · HawaiʻiiNat 3 · GBIF 5 ✓
Pāpaʻikou · HawaiʻiiNat 4 · GBIF 4 ✓
Kalopā · HawaiʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 5 ✓
Waiheʻe · MauiiNat 3 · GBIF 2 ✓
Honolulu · OʻahuiNat 2 · GBIF 3 ✓
Honomū, Kuhua · HawaiʻiiNat 3 · GBIF 2 ✓
Piʻihonua · HawaiʻiiNat 4
Puʻuwaʻawaʻa · HawaiʻiiNat 2 · GBIF 2 ✓
Kahuku · HawaiʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 3 ✓
Hanalei · KauaʻiiNat 2 · GBIF 1 ✓
ʻAiea · OʻahuiNat 1 · GBIF 2 ✓
Pānauinui · HawaiʻiGBIF 3
Mākaha · OʻahuiNat 2
Waipiʻo · HawaiʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Puʻukawaiwai, Panoluʻukia · HawaiʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Kahaualeʻa · HawaiʻiGBIF 2
Waiʻanae · OʻahuGBIF 2
Kalalau · KauaʻiGBIF 2
Kikahi · OʻahuiNat 1
Ponahawai · HawaiʻiiNat 1
Kaʻohe Mauka · HawaiʻiiNat 1
Kaunolū · LānaʻiiNat 1
Kalauao · OʻahuiNat 1
Hakalau · HawaiʻiiNat 1
Waikīkī · OʻahuGBIF 1
Puʻukapu · HawaiʻiGBIF 1
Nuʻu · MauiGBIF 1
Hakipuʻu · OʻahuGBIF 1
Kalaoa 1-5 · HawaiʻiGBIF 1
Punahoa 2 · HawaiʻiGBIF 1
Kailua · OʻahuGBIF 1
Honouliuli · OʻahuGBIF 1
Kalihiwai · KauaʻiGBIF 1
Kohanaiki · HawaiʻiGBIF 1
Kamananui · OʻahuGBIF 1
Mānana · OʻahuGBIF 1
Makawao · MauiGBIF 1
Kalihi · OʻahuGBIF 1
Keʻei 2 · HawaiʻiGBIF 1