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Description of  K : An Ethnobotanical Guide to Hawaiian Sugarcane Cultivars

The enormous impact of sugarcane plantations in Hawaii has overshadowed the fact that Native Hawaiians introduced sugarcane to the islands nearly a millennium before Europeans arrived. In fact, Hawaiians cultivated sugarcane extensively in a broad range of ecosystems using diverse agricultural systems and developed dozens of native varieties of k (Hawaiian sugarcane). Sugarcane played a vital role in the culture and livelihood of Native Hawaiians, as it did for many other Indigenous peoples across the Pacific. This long-awaited volume presents an overview of more than one hundred varieties of native and heirloom k as well as detailed varietal descriptions of cultivars that are held in collections today. The culmination of a decade of Noa Lincolns fieldwork and historical research, Read more