No listing on this site names puakenikeni in its posted products yet. That does not mean nobody strings it, only that no source we have read says so. If you know a shop that does, tell us.
About puakenikeni lei on oʻahu
The name means ten-cent flower, from what a single blossom or a strand of them is said to have cost when the name stuck. The flower is a long, narrow trumpet that opens creamy white in the evening, deepens to yellow through the following day, and finishes a warm orange-gold. A lei often carries blossoms at several stages at once, which is why a fresh puakenikeni strand shades from white through to amber along its length.
It is strung whole rather than as buds, so the lei is bulkier and more sculptural than pīkake and reads from further away. The scent is heavy and sweet, closer to gardenia than to jasmine, and a single lei is generous on a warm day.
Puakenikeni is a lei to order rather than to pick up. The blossoms bruise where they are handled and discolour where they are pressed, so shops that make them tend to string them close to the time you collect them rather than keep a rail of them ready. Trees in Hawaiʻi flower over much of the year with a summer peak, but individual shops get their flowers from particular growers or from a tree in someone's yard, so availability is far more shop-by-shop than it is for commercially grown orchid or carnation.
No listing on this site currently names puakenikeni in its posted product list. That does not mean nobody makes it; it means no source we have read says so. If you know a shop that strings it, tell us and we will add it.