n., Small native trees (Pipturus spp.) with broad white-backed leaves and white mulberry-like fruit; the bark yielded a fiber valued for a kind of tapa, similar to that made from wauke but coarser.
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s. The bush or plant from the bark of which the mamaki kapas are made.
2. The name of the kapa or cloth thus made.
plant furnishing bark for tapa. Land section, Lanai.
Bay and point, southeast Lā-naʻi, named for certain native trees, the bark of which was used for tapa; heiau east of Kaunolū, Lā-naʻi, now a rocky enclosure at a cliff edge (Titcomb 19).
Native Hawaiian tree (Pipturus albidus) with a smooth, light-brown bark with a fibrous inner layer, formerly a principal source of a firm, heavy kapa, durable if not wetted. (NEAL 319.)
Small native trees (Pipturus spp.), the bark of which has a fibrous inner layer. Formerly a principal source of kapa. This was durable kapa when dry but torn easily, as paper, when wetted. (NEAL 318.)
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Search for “māmaki” on Ulukau.