Uluhe is an indigenous groundcover that has the most unusual growth pattern.

It unfurls, fernlike, into two leaves. Each of those spreads two additional leaves and so on until it reaches its end where the leaves branch out to form a pointy-ended fern shape.

These plants cover everything that isn’t forested. Roadsides, clearings, recovering lava flows. They tangle into impenetrable brambles and their dead leaves create a fire hazard when the weather turns dry. Forestry services consider them a nusiance but I think they are pretty. Posted by kuri at March 20, 2001 02:36 AM