Crossword-Solution: OHIA 4 letters, 11 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

There were forests of koa and kolea trees, and candlenut trees; and then there were the trees called ohia-ai, which bore red mountain apples, mellow and juicy and most excellent to eat.

The _ohia_ trees form a handsome feature in the landscape, with their thick tall stems, glossy foliage, and light crimson flowers.

The tradition says of Pali-uli, that it was a sacred, tabooed land; that a man must be righteous to attain it; if faulty or sinful he will not get there; if he looks behind he will not get there; if he prefers his family he will not enter Pali-uli." "Among other adornments of the Polynesian Paradise, the Kalana-i-hau-ola, there grew the _Ulu kapu a Kane_, the breadfruit tabooed for Kane, and the _ohia hemolele_, the sacred apple-tree.

The most luxuriant verdure clothes the ground, and in some places the beautifully burnished leaves of the ohia, or native apple-tree (_Eugenia malaccensis_), almost exclude the few rays of light that find their way down into this secluded nook.

After this division Ku-ula-uka went up in the mountains to live, and met a woman known as La-ea--called also Hina-ulu-ohia--a sister of Hina-pu-ku-ia, Ku-ula's wife.