Puʻu Kukui
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PuTemplate:Okinau Kukui is a mountain peak in [[Hawaii|HawaiTemplate:Okinai]], the highest of the West Maui Mountains (Mauna Kahalawai). The Template:Convert summit rises above the PuTemplate:Okinau Kukui Watershed Management Area, an Template:Convert private nature preserve maintained by the Maui Land & Pineapple Company. The peak was formed by a volcano whose caldera eroded into what is now the ʻĪao Valley.
PuTemplate:Okinau Kukui receives an average of Template:Convert of rain a year,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> making it one of the wettest spots on Earth<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and third wettest in the state after Big Bog on Maui and [[Mount Waialeale|Mount WaiTemplate:OkinaaleTemplate:Okinaale]] on Kauai,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Rainwater unable to drain away flows into a bog. The soil is dense, deep, and acidic.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
PuTemplate:Okinau Kukui is home to many endemic plants, insects, and birds, including the greensword (Argyroxiphium grayanum), a distinctive bog variety of Template:OkinaōhiTemplate:Okinaa lehua (Metrosideros polymorpha var. pseudorugosa)<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> and many lobelioid species. Due to the mountain peak's extreme climate and acidic peat soil, many species, such as the Template:OkinaōhiTemplate:Okinaa, are represented as dwarfs. Access to the area is restricted to researchers and conservationists.
See also
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- List of mountain peaks of the United States
- Big Bog, Maui
- Mount Waialeale
- List of Ultras of Oceania
- List of Ultras of the United States
- Hawaii hotspot
- Evolution of Hawaiian volcanoes
- Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain