There were no active flames or smoke present Wednesday on Kahoolawe, a day after two burn spots flared up just above Ahupu Valley, said the Kaho’olawe Island Reserve Commission on Wednesday.

In 1992, the species was rediscovered on a rock outcropping on Kahoolawe by botanists Ken Wood and Steve Perlman of the National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG). Since then, horticulturalists ...