Kini Po-Po Creations, Inc.
12 East Puainako Street
Hilo, Hawai`i  96720

Contact: Herbert Kamiyama, President
Phone: (808) 959-8185
Fax: (808) 959-8155
E-mail: kpp@ilhawaii.net
www.organichawaii.com

Founded in 1972, Kini Po-Po Creations is a family-owned business that employs 15 people on Hawaii island. The company began as a seller of certified nursery-grown cuttings from tropical plants and, over the past 35 years, has grown and expanded to include selling tropical plants and organic herbal teas. 

In 1999, the company established its own certified organic mamaki tea farm on the slopes of Mauna Loa at an elevation of 2,000 feet. Mamaki is an herbal tea that is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands and was used by the Hawaiians to cleanse the body and provide an energy boost. Mamaki is technically considered a tisane, since teas are defined as drinks made from the tea bush. (Tisanes include any herbal infusion other than that made from the leaves of the tea bush.) Kini Po-Po Creations’ mamaki leaves are certified 100 percent organic.

Explains company President Herbert Kamiyama, “Kini Po-Po Creations, Inc., only packages quality products. This means that when someone buys one of our products a second time, it will be the same as the first. If they are cuttings to be planted, they will always grow if planted and cared for properly. If they are organic teas, they will taste the same and will provide the same healthful benefits.” 

Kini Po-Po Creations’ line of products includes: ti logs; guava, Kona coffee, bird of paradise, Maui onion and woodrose seeds; bamboo orchid, red ginger, blue ginger, yellow ginger and white ginger shoots; hibiscus, plumeria and vanda slips; air plant leaves; tuberose bulbs; sprouting coconut; bonsai and anthurium plants; cattleya, dendrobium and phaleaenopsis orchids; and organic mamaki leaves.

These items can be purchased at tourist gift shops throughout Hawaii.