Pili Nut Tree – Canarium vulgare

Image Source: Lance Catedral (Wiki Commons)

• Can reach up to 100 ft. tall.
• Native to Malaysia.
• Distinctively large buttress roots.
• The nut is edible and also provides oil to cook with or use for a lantern.
• Planted in 1893 by Mrs. Albert Francis Judd – her husband was the sonof Gerrit Parmele Judd – one of Hawaii’s most significant historical figures in times of Monarchy.

    Source: (Majesty II, 1991)
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