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Someone already capped the posts describing how team skull was based on commercial plants and how Kukui, Hala, and Hau were all polynesian staple plants, but I'd like to note that Hala uses crabrawler in his battle and coconut crabs eat about any tree fruits they can get their hands on, including hala tree fruits, which look like pineapples. They're just starchy fruits though.
