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 ...

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 ...

For the latest installment of Meet a SI-entist, Smithsonian Voices spoke with Wagner to learn where his plant passion first bloomed, what he thinks of the recent Maui wildfires, and how Hawaii’s ...

Nearly half of all the plants found here, around 1000 species, are found nowhere else in the world. Hawaii is an important place for a programme about the relationship between plants and humans.

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 ...

It grows rapidly and vigorously from seed. Rye tends to be taller thank wheat. This plant is a bunch type grass with many upright tillers. The leaves, like most small grains are rolled in the whorl.

Run by Gibson and his staff members, Elemental Plants brings a new commercial nursery in Honokaa, in addition to others in the region. “Every community (in North Hawaii) seems to have its share ...

Have you found a strange bug or a new plant in your garden, or stumbled across an intriguing animal bone or fossil while out on a country walk? Let us help you find out more about it. If your business ...

This widely adapted perennial legume is grown in every state in the US. Alfalfa does best on soils with fine to medium textures that are moderately to well drained and neutral or higher in pH. It ...

Three “virtual power plants ” in Hawaii are out of commission due to the recent demise of an energy management company, but the losses are small, according to Hawaiian Electric. Los Angeles ...

The Hawaiian Mission Houses and Historic Site and Archives will host a free ʻOhana Day on Saturday, highlighting the ...

The full extent of the damage to infrastructure is still largely unknown, while hundreds of thousands of people in the ...