Greenbriers

And as you go across into the actual plateau, the Alakai itself, it becomes more and more dominated by this really moisture-tolerant tree called the ohia lahua and another tree called ohia ha and some other beautiful understory trees that people may be less familiar with, the lapa lapa and the o lapa, that have these beautiful leaves that sort of tremble and dance in the wind a little bit like aspen if you've ever been in the western states or provinces.

And then down on the ground, there's just this thick tangle, especially if pigs have been removed from the area of ferns and this vine called Smilax, which is a briar, a briarless briar, which I'll come back to in a second, and mints and lobeliads.

And there's one thing about a Hawaiian rainforest compared to mainland U.S. or Canadian landscape is the amount of fruit and flowers.

It's really that's really striking element of it.

I don't know what that is.

It could be Smilax or something like that.

Smilax or another type of vine.

They do get in there.

And it's the seeds that are dropped by birds and stuff sitting on the trees, you know, and stuff.

Oh, yes.

And it was, uh, Smilax was what was in it.

This is, like, a, it's supposed to raise...

It did nothing, right? But when I bought it, I was like, "Oh, this is gonna be-"