Kanaauao Huggins: I think most people will think of that beautiful purple dendrobium orchid leis as Hawaiian, but those are made and usually come from Thailand. Right now, there is a fungus that ...
so I asked Elisa Mom to grow them for me to sell so we could offer a real Hawaiian lei,” Seelis said. “She uses dendrobium orchids to make them.” ...
Flower chains were brought to the Hawaiian islands by Polynesian ... Today an estimated 90 percent of flowers for leis such as dendrobium orchids are imported from countries like Thailand.