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 ...

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.