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Naturalized kukui (Candlenut tree, Aleurites moluccana) grow between the fluted cliffs of the Na Pali Coast on Kauai, Hawaii. According to Katie Cassel, famed "weed warrior" and director of the Kokee Resource Conservation Program, "they seeded it out of B-51 bombers in the re-forestation projects in the 60's, so it filled valleys to the top where the seeds find the first soil and level ground to grow; otherwise it wouldn't have gotten way up there because the seeds are too big to be carried by birds."

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Image Size: 1280x853 / 962.6KB; www.weltyphotography.com; North America United States USA Pacific Islands Hawaii Kauai Na Pali Coast State Park Na Pali Coast color image horizontal day nobody aerial view detail pattern cliff erosion plant tree kukui Candlenut tree Aleurites moluccana naturalized introduced outdoors
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Naturalized kukui (Candlenut tree, Aleurites moluccana) grow between the fluted cliffs of the Na Pali Coast on Kauai, Hawaii. According to Katie Cassel, famed "weed warrior" and director of the Kokee Resource Conservation Program, "they seeded it out of B-51 bombers in the re-forestation projects in the 60's, so it filled valleys to the top where the seeds find the first soil and level ground to grow; otherwise it wouldn't have gotten way up there because the seeds are too big to be carried by birds."