Hawaiian Legacy Forest
leave a lasting legacy.
Planting a Legacy Tree is the perfect way to cherish a loved one and create a living legacy that will give back for a lifetime, while helping to neutralize the carbon footprint of your loved one’s cremation/burial.
Show the family you care by planting a Legacy Tree.
A Legacy of Love
You will receive a beautiful personalized certificate and the knowledge that you contributed to making our planet a better place. Your donation will funds collecting seeds by hand, raising your seedling in our nursery, planting your tree to create a forest, fencing out pests, clearing invasive species, and of course, the RFID tagging so you can track your tree via TreeTracker.
Every tree dedication is a living legacy, and a gift which will grow grander year after year.
King Koa, planted on Hawai‘i Island, $176.71
King Koa (Acacia koa) is a native Hawaiian tree of exceptional beauty. The Hawaiian Islands were once blanketed in koa forests with the largest trees being sought out for dugout canoes. The wood was so prized that it was used for virtually everything in contact with the Ali'i (Hawaiian royalty). The trees reach heights of 100 feet and diameters of 4 feet. It has been all but eliminated from the lower elevations on all of the Hawaiian Islands.
The Hawaiian translation of the word “Koa” is “strong, brave, fearless,” and Koa trees, known as “the warrior tree,” are revered in Hawaiian culture.
Koa is so variable in its appearance as to defy classification. It can be everything from red to brown to golden and even ivory. The grain can be straight, but the most valuable of koa exhibits a curly figure that creates the illusion that you are looking right through the surface. It finishes to a rich luster and depth that has made it a treasured resource for Hawaiian heirloom furniture.
Monarch Milo, planted on Oahu, $176.71
Monarch Milo (Thespesia populnea) is a beautiful and spiritually important Hawaiian tree. It is a perfect representation of Aloha in so many ways. The word “aloha” means hello, love, and, also goodbye. Both “hello” and “goodbye” represent the bookends of all relationships, while “love” represents everything in between.
Even the tree itself is the embodiment of love, as every single leaf is in the perfect shape of a heart. The milo flowers also represent how short our time together is, as each flower blooms only once and, in a matter of hours, is gone forever.
At daybreak, the blossom opens and is the color of the soft yellow morning sun. Throughout the day it changes hue from peach to orange and, by the end of the day, is the color of a deep ruby red sunset. Its entire life is lived in a single day, never to return; but the memory of its beauty is etched in the souls of those blessed enough to have experienced it.
Your Personalized Certificate
Each Legacy Tree you plant comes with an Electronic Certificate of Sponsorship sent via email detailing the tree's ID number and GPS location.
