The Hawaiian Island chain is beloved for its flora and fauna, as its lava rock landscape is shrouded with a variety of flowering trees and plants, as well as unique creatures only seen in Hawaii.

It is related to Ohia so the flowers also attract our native ... The world’s Tropical forests include not only trees but under story palms, bromeliads, orchids, ferns and bamboos.

Researchers dispatched a drone into the Hawaiian skies to observe ... The plant grows in a shrub or small tree and produces bright yellow flowers, which turn purple or maroon as it ages.

Unfortunately, she’s kept busy in her home state, Hawaii, which is also known as the extinction capital of the world. Her latest conservation target is a flowering tree that’s fighting a ...

The tree is also associated with Laka, the goddess of hula, its flower used in leis for the traditional Hawaiian dance. In 2016, for the first time in more than 50 years, many hula schools were ...

Lei makers like to use the flowers and especially the seeds in their creations.) Every tree that we plant and care for is a help in cooling our islands and our planet. Native Hawaiian and useful ...

In West Hawaii, the tree usually loses its leaves in late summer or early fall and puts out a gorgeous display of blossoms on the leafless tree. In a dry Kona year, the tree will sometimes flower ...

Hawaii native Meleana Estes picks flowers – like the valued flower puakenikeni, known as the perfume flower tree ten cent flower – to create a colorful palette for her leis. A single lei can ...

The birds diverged into different species to fill a variety of niches, subsisting on everything from grubs to tree sap to nectar from tropical flowers. But until recently, scientists didn’t know ...