Vilaito is a solitary, moderately stout palm with a light coloured trunk on an expanded base. The trunk normally grows up to 12 m in height and is stout, at about 25 cm in diameter.

This is a solitary and generally slender palm that grows up to 15 m in height.

Alsmithia longipes is a medium-sized palm, the trunk of which grows up to 10m in height.

This palm is the stoutest of all Balaka growing to a height of 4-7 m with a trunk up to 10cm in diameter.

Taqwa is a moderately stout, small understorey palm that grows up to 5 m in height, with a trunk to 15 cm in diameter.

The Soga is a large conspicuous palm that grows to 15m in height.

Drautabua is a gymnosperm belonging to the family Podocarpaceae, and a member of the wider and better known Pine family.

The Yanita is a beautiful tall tree that can grow from 15-30m in height.

The Pacific kauri is a gymnosperm, and can become a tall tree, growing up to 40 m in height, with a trunk up to 3 m in diameter.

Yasi is a small shrub or tree that grows up to 8-10 m in height.

Balaka macrocarpa is a small palm that grows to only 8 m high with a trunk from 5-10 cm in diameter.

The Tagimaucia is a liana (woody vine), that forms thickets high up in the canopy, much similar to the growth of the duva, Derris trifoliata.

This species of Balaka is usually a small palm, but it can grow up to 13m in height, with an 8 cm diameter trunk.

Cibicibi is a slender tree that can grow up to 4m in height.

Yaka, one of Fiji’s renowned primitive conifers, is a member of the family Podocarpaceae.

There are 125 varieties of Colocasia esculenta, or dalo known in the Fiji Islands, of which at least 70 were grown and consumed by Fijians before the arrival of other settlers and the before commercialisation of the root crop.