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mauʻu lāʻili

/ mauʻu lā.ʻili / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

1. n., A native iris (Sisyrinchium acre), with long grasslike leaves and small yellow flowers, found on Maui and Hawaiʻi between altitudes of 1,000 and 2,000 m. It grows in the Kīlauea Volcano region, and formerly the sap was used to stain the skin so that travelers could prove to others at home that they had been to the volcano.

2. n., Name of a kind of calico with tiny figures, so called because of resemblance to mauʻu lāʻili stains.

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mauʻu laʻili

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Yellow flowers, a relative of the perhaps one hundred species of blue-eyed iris (Sisyrinchium acre), a native of Hawaiʻi. The juice was once used by the Hawaiians to stain the skin with bluish designs to prove they had visited Kīlauea Crater where the plant grew profusely. (NEAL 232.)

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