They've focused on a different set of trees recognized as a centuries-old keystone in Lahaina history: the breadfruit tree. Neither banyans nor breadfruits are native - but one represents the ...

At a crest in the road stood a breadfruit tree, full of basketball-size, lime-green fruits, knobbled and prehistoric, like a dinosaur egg covered in ostrich leather. One had recently fallen.

Breadfruit has been a South Pacific staple for over 3,000 years. The starchy fruit can be used in a wide array of savory and sweet dishes, but isn't well-known in the mainland United States ...