prop-like

Updated: May 13, 2025

But the mournful looking trees along the coast and all about Hilo are mostly the Pandanus odoratissimus, a spreading and branching tree which grows fully twenty-five feet high, supports itself among inaccessible rocks by its prop-like roots, and is one of the first plants to appear on the newly-formed Pacific islands.

Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird - The Hawaiian Archipelago