HONOLULU (KHON2) — In October, Terrence “TJ” Oliver and his family were hiking on the east side of Oʻahu when they made an unexpected discovery.
“We was just walking and there’s a river, and you know, we nīele, so we just looking and then we seen the plant like ‘hou!’” Oliver said. “When you see something that big that’s not usually that big, it’s like that’s a creature of god.”
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The Oliver family found a taro plant with leaves that stretched as tall as a person.
“I think it was like 50 inches width and like from the center of the stem to the tip of the leaf was like 48 inches,” Oliver said.
The current Guinness World Record for largest taro leaf is 37.79 inches wide and 44.96 inches long…