Mountain apple, ohia ai, is one of the 12,000 to 13,000 plants introduced to Hawaii by people. Mountain apple is native to the Southwestern Pacific and has naturalized in Hawaii, capable of ...

Arbor Day is being celebrated at several Big Island locations today, Nov. 2. Amy Greenwell Garden in Captain Cook will be ...

A rare Hawaiian plant community in the 80-acre Kanaele bog located above Kalaheo town will be protected due to a 10-year agreement between The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii and a Kaua‘i-based ...

FOREST AND KIM STARR photo Hawaii is the most isolated landmass on the planet. Because of this, plants and animals that arrived here millions of years ago have made extraordinary evolutionary ...

View the database by navigating to PlantsOfHawaii.org. The years-long effort to digitize Hawaii’s plants is part of Bishop Museum’s Digital Futures Initiative to expand the museum’s digital ...

Schiedea waiahuluensis, a newly discovered species from Hawaii in the carnation family, is likely the first plant to be ...