Puu Kukui

Infobox Mountain
Name = Puokinau Kukui
Photo = Iaovalley sm.jpg! Īokinaao Valley, below Puokinau Kukui
Photo size = 300px
Caption = Īokinaao Valley, below Puokinau Kukui
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Elevation = 5,788 ft (1,764 m)
Location = Maui, Hawaii, USA
Range = Hawaiian islands
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url= http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=11885
title= Puu Kukui, Hawaii
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date= 2004-11-01 |work= |publisher= Peakbagger.com
accessdate= 2008-04-06 ]
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Topographic
USGS Lahaina
Type = Shield volcano
Age = <1.3 Ma
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Puokinau Kukui is a mountain peak in Hawaii. It is the highest peak of Mauna Kahalawai, or the West Maui Mountains. The 1,764-m (5,788 feet) summit rises above the Puokinau Kukui Watershed Management Area, an 8,600-acre (35 km²) private nature preserve maintained by the Maui Land & Pineapple Company. The peak was formed by a volcano whose caldera eroded into what is now Īokinaao Valley.

Puokinau Kukui is one of the wettest spots on Earth, [Juvik, Sonia P. (1998) "Atlas of Hawaii", University of Hawaii Press, ISBN 978-0824821258, p. 14.] receiving more than 355 inches (900 cm) of rain a year.

Puokinau Kukui is home to numerous endemic plants, insects, and birds, including the greensword ("Argyroxiphium grayanum"), dwarf 'ohia ( Metrosideros polymorpha ) and many species of lobelia. Because of the mountain peak's extreme climate and peat soil, many species, such as the 'ohia, are represented as dwarfs. Access to the area is restricted to researchers and conservationists.

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* [http://www.nokaoimagazine.com/Features/v.11n.2/Rooted_in_Mystery.html "Rooted in Mystery"] Article about Pu'u Kukui. Maui No Ka 'Oi Magazine Vol.11 No.2 (March 2007).