By Diana Duff Special to West Hawaii Today
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Planting the rare and delightful native Hawaiian plant hale pepe can add an interesting and lovely specimen to your garden or landscape. As botanists continue to change and update the classification of plants, hale pepe’s order, family and genus have changed several times. As a member of the Aspargales order, the Agavaceae family and part of the Dracaena genus it has many relatives that we already grow in our gardens. Asparagus, agave, ti plants and dracaenas are all related to hale pepe. It is the only one among her relatives that is native to Hawaii, however.

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