There is a variety of sugar cane, "Ko Manulele", which Hawaiian prepared a drink from the juice and gave it to the one desirous of love. "Manulele" means flying bird in Hawaiian and "Ko" means juice from the sugar cane. The color of the stem is usually green with yellow and reddish-brown stripes.
This variety of sugar cane is also said to have used in love potion (hana aloha). This potion is available in the form of bottled drink.
Ko was introduced into Polynesia by migrants from southern Asia or Malaysia and was carried from Central Polynesia to Hawaii by Polynesian colonizers early in the settlement era. Originally cultivated in prehistoric times near central New Guinea. The many commercial varieties in Hawaii are interspecific hybrids of Saccharum officinarum, Saccharum spontaneum and Saccharum robustum.
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