1 guide tagged Kava Cultivars
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Borogu, Loa, Mahakea, Mo'i, Melomelo — kava is sold under a sprawling vocabulary of cultivar names, and almost nobody maps them properly. This is the rigorous version: what a kava "strain" actually is (a clonally propagated cultivar, not a cannabis-style seed strain), the noble / tudei / wichmannii classification that decides quality, and a guided tour of the named varieties island by island — Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, Hawaii, Samoa, Papua New Guinea, and Pohnpei — with the documented heady-versus-heavy tendencies of each.
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