purao-tree

Updated: February 14, 2026

And there are still others, less pliable, less capable, less fortunate, perhaps less base, who continue, even in these isles of plenty, to lack bread. At the far end of the town of Papeete, three such men were seated on the beach under a purao-tree. It was late.

Robert Louis Stevenson - The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 19