Cook Island Flowers. You can take ei katu floral head garland and take on aircrft from rarotonga to aitutaki go into island craft in avarua and order your fresh ei from them store it in the fridge to maintain freshness. Like edelweiss is to the austrians so the star like tiare maori gardenia taitensis is to cook islanders tiare maori is often used.
Visitors to the cook islands will no doubt be greeted upon arrival with one of these lovely floral creations called ei which are typical to the cook islands hawaii and tahiti and her islands. The gardenia known locally as the tiare maori is a special flower to the people of the cook islands having travelled with the first settlers to the islands. Like other islands of polynesia the cook islands have an abundance of bright tropical flowers and other plants.
Visitors to the cook islands will no doubt be greeted upon arrival with one of these lovely floral creations called ei which are typical to the cook islands hawaii and tahiti and her islands.
Featuring 5 9 small and simple white petals the gardenia is not as showy as some of the other flowers on this list. Campbell andrew teariki ed. The cook islands exclusive economic zone eez covers 1 960 027 square kilometres 756 771 sq mi of ocean. Cook islands custom of flowers in the hair.
