Palapalai
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Microlepia strigosa
Native Indigenous
Palapalai is a fern found growing wild in the wet forest. As a medicine, it can help to treat insanity. Most commonly it is made into lei haku (braiding style). Leaves are used as offerings to Laka, goddess of hula.