Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_rubus_hawaiensis
ʻĀkala
Rubus hawaiensis
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About ʻĀkala
A native raspberry shrub with shredding bark and sparse fine prickles or unarmed canes. Leaves usually have three broad, coarsely toothed leaflets, hairy beneath. Dusky rose to dark-pink flowers develop into large aggregate fruits; a representative red-fruited form is shown. This native shrub is a component of Hawaiian vegetation. Monitoring mature plants, new recruits and occupied cover can assess persistence and replacement. The reviewed accounts do not establish a measured Kauaʻi population trend or quantify an ecosystem effect.
Kauaʻi evidence
Generated media is not occurrence evidence. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Rubus hawaiensis
- Hawaiian names
- ʻākala · ʻākalakala · kala
- Other names
- Rubus hawaiensis · ʻākala · ʻākalakala · kala
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Endemic
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-07
- Evidence limits
- Island-level public occurrence only. Choose a single red-fruited form rather than combine the reported red, purple and yellow forms on one plant.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- Not yet assessed
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Shrub or subshrub; Shrubs with shredding bark; stems erect or arching, up to 40 dm long, sparingly branched, primocanes and floricanes similar, covered with slender prickles up to 4 mm long, the bases sometimes elongated longitudinally, or nearly as often without prickles, also sparsely to moderately or sometimes densely pilose.
Threats and conservation
- Monitoring
- Occupied area and vegetation cover; Mature plants and new recruits; Reproductive plants and fruiting frequency. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
- Data gaps
- Current island extent and population trend · Measured local ecological effects
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not yet assessed
- Seasonal description
- A native raspberry shrub with shredding bark and sparse fine prickles or unarmed canes. Leaves usually have three broad, coarsely toothed leaflets, hairy beneath. Dusky rose to dark-pink flowers develop into large aggregate fruits; a representative red-fruited form is shown. This native shrub is a component of Hawaiian vegetation. Monitoring mature plants, new recruits and occupied cover can assess persistence and replacement. The reviewed accounts do not establish a measured Kauaʻi population trend or quantify an ecosystem effect.