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Ke Kōmike Kumulāʻau asks, “Is this a plant that belongs in our pā māla?.”

[From Native Planters, p. 149-150] The transplanting of breadfruit requires careful handling. A section of root with a shoot on it must be cut out and taken up undistrubed with a ball of earth around it. This is planted in a hole in the ground and carefully mulched and watered.

[From Native Planters, p.151-152] According to Kawena Pukui, there is a bushlike ʻulu differing from the tree. The low-lying breadfruit is called kino-o-Haumea, body-of-Haumea, and na ʻuluhua i ka hapapa, low-lying like a bush. It is thought of as female. The ordinary upright tree is called male and named ʻulu ku, or “upright breadfruit.”