Today is Earth Day and Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park is celebrating the native rainforest by honoring the biology of aloha, or “commensalism.” This special relationship can be spotted throughout the forest along many of the park’s popular hiking trails. The relationship is neither parasitic nor symbiotic but a beautiful balance of mutually shared habitat. Keep your eyes open for the reclining “nurse log” trunks of giant hapuʻu tree ferns. Here you can spot multiple species growing from the sam

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