The Plumeria (also known as frangipani) is a beautiful flower and one of the most common tropical plants in Hawaii. It is native to Central and South America and has become popular worldwide due ...

Floral lovers of all types recently spent a weekend learning about Hawaii’s tropical flowers and how to make them even more ...

When malihini (foreigners), kamaʻāina and even in some cases, Kānaka Hawaiʻi (Native Hawaiians) think about lei, a purple ...

As one of the world’s leading experts on Hawaiian flora ... and I would come home with dozens of plants that I wanted to identify. To me, this field has always felt like a big puzzle I ...

Hurricane Maria killed so many Purple-throated caribs, sole pollinator of two species of heliconia, that other birds were ...

Namwa bananas in Hawaii ... whose female flowers develop into fruits (technically berries) and whose male flower droops down ...

Additionally, various Hawaiian plants have been linked to medicinal purposes for sleep, anxiety, and pain. The flowers of `Ohi`a Lehua, for example, a flowering tree native to the islands ...

Most flowering plants depend on animals for pollination. In warm wet tropical regions, more than 90% of plant species are ...

Anthurium clarinervium is a tropical houseplant with large, heart-shaped leaves that have a striking venation. Like orchids, ...

Aha Pūnana Leo aims to preserve this cultural heritage by bringing the Hakalama into the modern era. In a rare audio recording from a student workbook from 1981, Mrs. Mālia Craver recollected her ...