Leaves sometimes used for thatching houses. Flowers small pale blue white, berries translucent blue. Habitat - Near fresh and salt water, coastal areas, mudflats, sand, and brackish streams. Description - A vigorous ground cover, sometimes forming mats. Leaves succulent, bright green spatula shaped, 0.5 -1 cm.
Branches look jointed, bulging at points along the branches.
Long slender green leaves, 20-70 mm long, distichous, triangular shape. This is a very beautiful native, endemic Hawaiian plant. Flower is petaloid and white to pinkish purple inside, deeply divided into 5 acute lobes. Fruit is an ovoid to subglobose capsule 5-7 mm long containing numerous small black seeds. Open dry areas from sea level to about 1800m.