ʻUlu

English Name: Breadfruit

Genus: Artocarpus altlis

Uses:

ʻUlu’s main use was a food. However it was used with other plants to heal cuts. It could have been used as a moisturizer and gum. In the ancient days, it was used as a glue and caulking material. The flower could have been lit as a nontoxic mosquito repellant. And the wood could have been used for canoes, woodwork, drums, surfboards, and poi boards.

Background Info:

History -

ʻUlu was brought to Hawaiʻi by the first Polynesian settlers. The tree can grow 40ft to 60ft with branches that can span out to 60ft.

Moʻolelo -

Ku is a hawaiian god that liked to live among the people, however he never told anyone he was a god and among those days he met his wife. One day the village they lived in were in a drought and they had no food. Ku then planted himself into the ground and became an ʻUlu tree so that his family and the village could have food.