In this Friday, March 11, 2016 photo, members of Halau Hiiakainamakalehua practice in Honolulu for lan ho diep tphcm the upcoming Merrie Monarch Festival, which is the world’s lan ho diep dep most prestigious hula competition. The group is among the competitors heeding calls to avoid using ohia blossoms at this year’s competition because of a fungus that’s killing the trees that grow them. (AP Photo/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher)
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HONOLULU (AP) – In years past, hula lan ho diep students would make pilgrimages into ohia forests on Hawaii’s Big Island to gather blossoms and leaves from the trees to adorn dancers’ lei, hair, hands and feet for the world’s most prestigious hula competition.
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But at this year’s upcoming Merrie Monarch Festival, the red and yellow blossoms that normally adorn dancers will be missing.
That’s because many competitors are heeding calls to avoid the flowers so they don’t spread a fungus that’s killing the tress that grow them. Scientists are worried what’s known as rapid ohia death will wipe out the backbone of Hawaii’s native forests and watersheds – the islands’ source of fresh water.
“It doesn’t grow anywhere else in world,” said Sam Ohu Gon III, senior scientist and cultural adviser for the Nature Conservancy of Hawaii. “If it goes extinct here, that’s it globally. It’s gone.”
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