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Artist Dauid Shepard designs aloha shirts with illustrations of Hawaii's native flora and fauna.

Dauvied actually trained as a botanist. Hawaii's native flora and fauna.

David actually trained as a botanist, and one of his shirt designs was inspired by his experience working on the Kalau-Papa Peninsula

with the Hoava Plant.

It's very rare, so rare that we only had two populations of it on the peninsula,

and unfortunately the flowers sense to be either male or female,

not both on the same branch.

And in a stroke of bad luck, the populations were on opposite ends of the peninsula.

So here it was hand pollinating it with a brush, and then going over to the other side and hand pollinating them too.

And then when the fruit would ultimately appear we had to wrap it in aluminum foil to

prevent the rats from eating it.

There's this whole drawing our process and then it takes eight months for these seeds to germinate and you also have to have some mesh on it so the rats don't pull those things up. So as you can see that the plant has a lot of things stacked against it.

Davi learned that one of the reasons the plants need such involved help from conservationists

is because it was a favorite food of the

food of the Al-A-Lah, or Hawaiian crow, which is now extinct in the wild.

And when they would eat the seeds,

they'd just pass right through their digestive tract,

and they germinate, great.

There are continuing efforts to keep the species alive in captivity and maybe one day return them to the wild.

But at least in David's artwork, the Allah-Lah flock among the hoava fruits once again.

You can see pictures of David's work on our website,

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