Lei Contest Plants

There are two lists of plants presented here. One comes from the contest organizers as a list of possible plants that might be used in a lei. Obvious, this is not a complete or exhaustive set of potential lei plants. The other list is a composite of the plants listed for each lei entry. These are the plants that are actually used.

This section compares these two lists and analyzes the characteristics of the list of plants that were used in the contest lei.

Only the entries for the Divisions and Categories are included in the analyses. This excludes entries from the Youth Competition entries.

Rules Plant List

A list of plants is given as part of the Rules document. This list is used, most likely, to help prepare the list of plants used in lei submitted to the contest.

The list given here has been simplified a bit to allow analysis. Specifically,

All terms have been shifted to lower case. Possessive marks and diacritical have been made consistent. Some editing of names for simplification and to help with comparisons.

The Simplified Rules Plant List has 167 entries. These are shown in the following table.

Simplified Rules Plant List

agapanthus ageratum agonis foliage alahe‘e (walahe‘e) alstromeria alyssum asparagus fern aster (monte casini) astilbe baby’s breath (gypsophila) bachelor’s button (cornflower) balloon flower (bell flower) banksia bear grass begonia billy balls (craspedia) bird of paradise blue jade blupleurum bougainvillea bouvardia brunia calendula candle brush carnation celosia chinaman’s hat (cup and saucer) chrysanthemum cibotium (tree fern) cigar flower (kika) clerodendrum (bleeding heart) coral plant (hanging firecracker) croton crown flower cymbidium daisy davallia fern (shinobu) delphinium (bella donna) dendrobium dracaena (song of india) dusty miller epidendron eryngium eucalyptus feverfew (tanacetum) firecracker freesia galphimia geranium ginger (white, yellow, red, pink) globe amaranth (bozo, bozu) goldenrod grevillea hala heather hedyotis hemigraphis he‘e (octopus) hibiscus hinahina (helitropium anomalum) honeysuckle hoya huapala hydrangea hypericum ironwood (casuarina) ixora joyweed