Names: Hala; Puhala
English: Thatch screwpine.
Spanish: Bacua.
French: Vacquois. Culture: creation myth, fertility myth, beginning of mankind; 250 billion years of material wisdom; eases a change of a chapter in one’s life; Myth: a beautiful goddess was injured when editing the pages of a hala tree, like two drops of blood fell into the sand. From; from these, two eggs, a female and a male and laid the foundations of mankind. Since then Hala is revered as a sacred tree. Eases life’s transitions, new beginnings; a change of a chapter in one’s life.
Botany: tree; leaves lance-shaped, toothed, in clusters, up to 150 cm long; palm-like; fruits, as pineapple, disintegrating on fall, green, ripen yellow and red; aerial; coastal.
Use: leaves for mats, baskets, sandals, fishing nets, sails; dye; fresh seeds eaten as bean sprouts; medicine.
Source: Christina Ari.