HONOLULU (AP) — Dear Tourist: The flowers in that bright-purple lei you received on your Hawaii vacation almost certainly weren’t grown in the Aloha State. The vast majority of those odorless orchids ...

For Little Plum Executive Chef Casey Kusaka, flowers have never been an afterthought. They shaped his childhood in Kaneohe, where his grandmother wove lei and ti leaves, his mother and sister danced ...

Buying lei made only with natural materials from Hawaii nei could be a new requirement for state agencies under an effort at the Legislature aimed at helping the local floriculture industry. Companion ...

“You don't come to Hawaii and not at least have a flower or a lei," said Kuhio Lewis, CEO of the Hawaiian Council, a nonprofit that promotes Native Hawaiian culture and business. “For us to now be ...

Watanabe Floral general manager Monty Pereira gestures at locally grown flowers at Watanabe Floral on Nov. 14 in Honolulu. Anthurium sales, valued at nearly $12 million in the early 2000s, have fallen ...