Ka Nani Pūnono ʻAʻalahonua Button Up Aloha Shirt- Garnet

This ʻAʻalahonua Aloha Shirt features our Ka Nani Pūnono print on Garnet material with Goldfish ink.  Ka Nani Pūnono The forests on the Island of Hawaiʻi are abundant with red lehua.  On the slopes of Mauna Kea, there are forests of towering ʻōhiʻa, many with a variety of red blossoms.  In Kāʻū, the redness seems deeper than the ones of Hāmākua.  The trees on the slopes of Hualālai offer another kind of reds, changing the light in the forests. “Ka Nani Pūnono,” simply translates to “the gorgeous red beauty.”  Traversing from Eastto West, North to South, Hawaiʻi Island offers some of the most incredible views of ournative forests in bloom.   ʻAʻalahonua  “Ke honi maila kō Hilo Palikū, kū ka makani he ʻAʻalahonua kiʻi ua.” This traditional ʻōlelo noeʻau speaks of taking in the fragrance as the rain-following-winds stir the landscape!  The wind ʻAʻalahonua of our Hilo district is unique.  Carrying the scent of the land, we are immediately reminded of the current state in which nature is i