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 ...

The site is also intended to help restore Ka Palupalu o Kanaloa, a plant that Native Hawaiians have tended to for over a thousand years, so the species can resume its ecological and cultural roles ...

This plant nourishes her second-born son, Hāloa, the first Native Hawaiian. For Native Hawaiians, kalo, also known as taro—a tropical plant prized for its starchy, nutritious, rootlike corm as well as ...

inspects a holokea plant. There are just 57 of them left. It, like many native Hawaiian species, is able to hold onto rainfall with adaptations like rough textured leaves, fine hairs, and multiple ...