Lahaina Banyan Tree Maui Ceramic Art Tile

Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.

Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.

Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.

It stands in Banyan Tree Park at 649 Front Street in Lahaina, on the western shore of Maui, Hawaii. The park sits across from Lahaina Harbor, adjacent to the Old Lahaina Courthouse and the Pioneer Inn, inside the Lahaina Historic District.

April 24, 1873. The Indian banyan was set in the courthouse square by William Owen Smith, then sheriff of Lahaina, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the arrival of the first American Protestant missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands. The sapling was about eight feet tall on planting day.

Roughly sixty feet tall, with sixteen major trunks descending from the lateral branches and a canopy covering about two-thirds of an acre. It is widely regarded as the largest banyan tree in the United States, all grown from the single eight-foot sapling planted in 1873.

Ficus benghalensis, the Indian banyan. The species is native to the Indian subcontinent and is the national tree of India. Banyans are strangler figs that spread laterally through aerial prop roots, which descend from branches and thicken into secondary trunks over time.

Yes. The August 8, 2023 wildfire devastated downtown Lahaina and heavily scorched the tree, but the root system survived. Arborists watered and treated the tree through the following months, and new growth returned along the surviving limbs in 2024.

Yes. Banyan Tree Park is a public park with no admission charge and no gates. The Old Lahaina Courthouse and the Lahaina Heritage Museum stand in the same square. Access to the wider downtown reopened in stages as the town recovered from the 2023 fire.

A banyan grows aerial roots from its branches; where the roots touch soil they thicken into prop trunks, and the canopy keeps spreading outward. A single Ficus benghalensis can, over a century, cover an entire courtyard from one original seed. The Lahaina tree is a working example.

It has been a meaningful gift for many of our customers with West Maui ties: people who grew up in Lahaina, married under the tree, or watched it scorch in 2023 and come back the following spring. A Coaster or a Small carries especially well, often paired with a handwritten note from the studio.

The colour signature, with emerald, deep amber, and glassy blues, sits well in Coastal-modern, Tropical Maximalist, and warm Mid-century rooms. The stained-glass treatment also reads cleanly against natural wood and cream walls, where the saturated greens carry the eye across a longer wall.

Yes. The tile reads as living botanical art without the watercolour-leaf cliché that has saturated tropical wall art. It anchors a biophilic room with one distinctive subject rather than a wash of greenery, which suits both maximalist and quieter tropical-modern schemes.

Above a standard sofa, a single Large holds the wall on its own. A four-tile Mural carries a longer wall in a great room or a wide entry, and a nine-tile Mural is the right scale for a stairway wall. A console runner suits a Small or Medium tile.

Yes, in the Dura Satin or Matte finish. Both are scratch-resistant and tolerate the steam and splashes of a bathroom backsplash, a shower wall, or a kitchen vanity. The Glossy finish is reserved for framed wall pieces in dry rooms.

A soft microfibre cloth with plain water is enough for everyday dust and fingerprints. For kitchen splatter, a drop of mild dish soap in warm water is fine. The colour is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, so it does not lift with normal cleaning.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece is made in-house by Reid Wender at the studio in Knoxville, Tennessee, painted in our stained-glass and alcohol-ink visual language and hand-finished before it leaves us. We do not license or resell other artists' work.