Lāʻau lapaʻau(Medicinal Use):

• Helps with treating illness like stomach ache[nahu‘aki o ka opu mai na makua mai (“gripping stimach ache”)].
  • To prepare, one needs to dry the flowers of ma‘o, nohu (Tribulus cistoides), ‘ilima (Sida fallax), and pua aloalo (cf. Hibiscus arnottianus) in the sun on niu (coconut, Cocos nucifera). The tap roots of ma‘o, ‘uhaloa (Waltheria indica), pōpolo (Solanum americanum), ‘ohi‘a ‘ai (Syzygyium malaccense), kō honua‘ula (red sugarcane, Saccharum officinarum), and koali (Ipomoea spp.) are mashed and heated into a liquid form. The dried leaves are drunk with the liquid mixture (Chun 1994: 217–218). 

Ways it was Used:

• The flowers are used to make yellow dye and the leaves for green dye.

Fun Fact: Māʻo helped save the cotton industry in modern times. When māʻo is crossed with other cotton strains, commercial hybrids is the result which is attracts less pests that may destroy the crop.

Kino lau(Many Forms taken by Supernatural body): None

Nū hou Propagation(Propagation Information):

• Easy. Presoaked seeds sprout in a few days; young seedlings with few leaves can be transplanted into the ground, need partial shade & careful watering for a few weeks but then thrive in full sunlight; wide range of soils with good drainage; flowers in 2 years (Bornhorst 1996:39; Bornhorst and Rauch 1994:10–11; Culliney and Koebele 1999:109–112).