Noble cultivar · Fiji

Vula Kasa Leka

Vula Kasa Leka is a Fijian noble cultivar from Viti Levu, the country's main island. Fiji classifies its cultivars by plant morphology rather than by chemotype, and this one is recorded by its light green stems with small dark lenticels, short internodes and spreading habit.

Country: Fiji
Registered for: Viti Levu
Legal class: noble
Form: Instant powder

Published chemotypes

A chemotype is a six-digit code that orders the six major kavalactones from largest to smallest share: 1 desmethoxyyangonin, 2 dihydrokavain, 3 yangonin, 4 kavain, 5 dihydromethysticin, 6 methysticin. Vanuatu's register uses it to distinguish noble from non-noble cultivars. Published codes for the same cultivar can differ by source, island and plant age.

Sold as an instant (dehydrated) powder. No chemotype has been published for this cultivar, so none is shown; the batch lab report on the product page is the reference for kavalactone content.

Classified as noble in the Fiji Ministry of Agriculture / PHAMA Plus variety survey.

No chemotype has been published for this cultivar.

Published description of the plant

Light green stems with tiny dark green lenticels, short internodes and a spreading habit.

Fiji Ministry of Agriculture / PHAMA Plus variety survey

Full cultivar record on kava.fyi

How it is grown and processed

Kava (Piper methysticum) does not set viable seed; every plant is a cutting of an older one, which is why cultivars stay stable over generations. Plants are grown in shade at first, then in open plantations, and harvested after three to five years when the root mass has developed. The roots are washed, sun- or shade-dried and milled; our powders are milled from the root only, not from stems or leaves.