Hawaii Plant World Essentials
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Author | : Jaya C. Dupuis |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 2018-04-09 |
Genre | : Plants |
ISBN | : 9781986740401 |
This plant identification guide offers a practical and fundamental approach to helping landowners and local residents make informed decisions about plant control and propagation choices in Hawai'i. It offers lists and images of the most common Hawaii lowland plant species according to native, Polynesian-introduced, and invasive species distinctions. The goal of this work is to promote more awareness of Hawai'i vegetation species, issues, and solutions; inspire appreciation and re-integration of native species into the lowland environment; and support the control of invasive species that threaten not only native forest integrity, but environmental balance at large. Despite some plant variations, the information provided in this booklet can generally be helpful to landscapes across the Hawaiian Islands. As we continue to lose many native ecosystems to urbanization, agriculture, and invasive species in Hawai'i, there is a growing need to restore and conserve a full range of native biodiversity and forest types across the entire elevation gradient. Though the process of invasion by exotic species at lower elevations cannot be entirely reversed, remaining native plant species and communities can be supported in their re-establishment and resilience. With focused community awareness and intention, lowland vegetation communities, and the general lower elevation landscape, can be greatly improved in native biodiversity and ecosystem health.
Author | : Robert J. Gustafson |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2014-10-31 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 0824846699 |
Hawaiian Plant Life has been written with both the layperson and professional interested in Hawai‘i’s natural history and flora in mind. In addition to significant text describing landforms and vegetation, the evolution of Hawaiian flora, and the conservation of native species, the book includes almost 875 color photographs illustrating nearly two-thirds of native Hawaiian plant species as well as a concise description of each genus and species shown. The work can be used either as a stand-alone reference or as a companion to the two-volume Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai‘i. Learning more about threatened and endangered plants is essential to conserving them, and there is no more endangered flora in the world today than that of the Hawaiian Islands. Striking species complexes such as the silverswords and the remarkable lobeliads represent unique stories of adaptive radiation that make the Hawai‘i a living laboratory for evolution. Public appreciation for Hawaiian biodiversity requires outreach and education that will determine the future conservation of this rich heritage, and Hawaiian Plant Life has been designed to help fill that need.
Author | : John L. Culliney |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1999-12-01 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 9780824821760 |
Hawai‘i is home to some of the rarest plants in the world, many of them now threatened by extinction. Despite a benign and nurturing climate, native species are declining almost everywhere in the Islands. Human-introduced pests, the spread of competing alien plants, wildfires, urban and agricultural development, and other disturbances of modern life are eliminating native species at an alarming pace. In fact, 38 percent of all plants on the U.S. endangered species list are native Hawaiian plants. A Native Hawaiian Garden is an effort to help stem the tide. Until recent years, few people attempted to raise native plants in their gardens, in schoolyards and parks, or around public buildings. But this situation is changing as essential information about raising native plants becomes more readily available. A Native Hawaiian Garden offers the most in-depth treatment yet on cultivating and propagating native Hawaiian plants. Following an overview of Hawaiian natural history and conservation, the book treats 63 species (many for the first time), giving detailed information on all stages of gardening: from preparing seeds for germination to the care and tending of the young plants in the landscape. Habitats where the plants are most likely to thrive are also described, as well as the uses that native Hawaiians made of the plants. Over 90 color photographs enhance the book. A Native Hawaiian Garden has much to offer professional horticulturists, landscapers, and botanists, and gives reason to hope that more spaces around housing developments, shopping malls, and other commercial buildings will soon include native plants. But the book will prove especially valuable to those gardeners who wish to grow and nurture something truly Hawaiian in their own backyards. Among the many rewards of growing natives, the authors make clear, is the opportunity to contribute your own experiences and findings to a vital preservation effort.
Author | : Kerin E. Lilleeng-Rosenberger |
Publisher | : Mutual Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Endemic plants |
ISBN | : 9781566477161 |
Author | : S. H. Sohmer |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 9780824810962 |
The Hawaiian islands, isolated by thousands of miles of ocean for millions of years, posses a unique assemblage of native flowers and plants. This text describes more than 130 indigenous and endemic species of Hawaiian plants, their characteristics and habitats, and how they came to be. The photographs aim to provide an easy and accurate means of recognizing a given plant and serve as a permanent record of the Hawaiian islands' fast-disappearing native flora.
Author | : Heidi Leianuenue Bornhorst |
Publisher | : Bess Press |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2005-04 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 9781573062077 |
Detailed instructions for growing native Hawaiian plants from cuttings or seeds, air-layering, grafting, watering, xeriscaping, transplanting, etc., and basic landscape maintenance. Also explains the plants' importance in Hawaiian culture.
Author | : Susan Scott |
Publisher | : Bess Press |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Animal introduction |
ISBN | : 9780935848939 |
A thorough treatment of the many plant and animal species found in Hawai'i.
Author | : Angela Kay Kepler |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1998-05-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780824819941 |
Almost 90 per cent of Hawaii's flora are found nowhere else in the world. This text presents a revised edition of a guide book to these and other plants that comprise some of the most unique ecosystems in the world. In a series of essays, the author weaves cultural and biological, historical and geographic, aesthetic and spiritual aspects of Hawaiian ecology into non-technical accounts of 32 plants important to early Hawaiians.
Author | : Kerin E. Lilleeng-Rosenberger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Endemic plants |
ISBN | : 9781939487964 |
Author | : Lois Lucas |
Publisher | : Bess Press |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780935848113 |
An introduction to 20 plants of the Ancient Hawaiians. Includes illustrations, uses, proverbs, and poems.