HO'OMALUHIA BOTANICAL GARDEN
The Ho’omaluhia Botanical Garden is part of the five botanical gardens administered by the Honolulu Botanical Gardens.
Located in Kaneohe, it was built by the US Army Corps of Engineers as flood protection for Kaneohe, the site of an important Marine Corps base, and opened to the public in 1982.
The garden covers 400 acres and emphasizes plants native to Hawaii and the Polynesian islands. Due to its young age – for a botanical garden – some trees have not yet reached their peak height.
Because of its flood protection mission, the garden includes an earth dam holding a pond. Admission is free, as with the other botanical gardens administered by the Parks and Recreation Department of the City and County of Honolulu.
GRASSES, SHRUBS AND FERNS
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| Welcome! |
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| Ground cover with yellow flowers |
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| Yellow heliconias |
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| Red heliconias |
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| Hala - pandanus |
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| Pandanus close up |
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| Colville's flowers |
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| Dombeya |
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| Kukui |
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| Ixora |
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| Ixora, the plant |
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| Naupaka |
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| Palm tree flowers, fruits |
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| Pink flower cluster |
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| Plumeria blooms |
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| Princess of the night |
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| Red flower bud |
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| Light grey flower cluster |
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| 'Ulei flower and fruit |
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| Yellow heliconias close up |
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| Yellow-orange flowers |
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| Blue-black fruit |
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| Beans sprouting |
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| Colville's tree fruit |
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| Croton pods |
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| Cuachilote |
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| Ficus saussureana |
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| Green-yellow fruits |
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| Hala - pandanus red fruit |
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| Poison bulb - crinum asiaticum |
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| Large bean on the ground |
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| Purple berry clusters |
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| Palm tree fruit |
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| Red fruit on palm tree |
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| Seed pod |
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| Red-green fruits |
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| Small orange fruit clusters |
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| Teddy bear palm fruits |
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| Tiger palm stem and fruits |
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| Transvaal gardenia fruit gourds |
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| 'Ulei fruit |
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| Unripe pandanus fruit |
THE TREES (27 photos)
When I pulled the bark on this tree to look inside I got a nasty surprise - a centipede about 10 inches long was hiding in there.
We only see the lower part of its body on this photo. These arthropods have 21 body segments.
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| Allspice tree trunk |
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| Dome-shaped tree |
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| Barbed palm tree trunk |
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| Fan palm tree |
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| Colville's glory tree |
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| Ficus glabrata |
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| Ficus glabrata tree base |
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| Ficus glabrata buttress roots |
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| Gumbo limbo |
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| Gumbo limbo information |
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| Red trunk palm trees |
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| Para rubber tree |
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| Para rubber tree information |
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| Palm tree and dried fruits |
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| Teddy bear palm |
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| Tiger palm |
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| Quachilote information |
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| White paperbark tree |
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| The tree with the centipede |
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| Talipot palm |
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| Talipot palm trunk close up |
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| Yellow bark eucalyptus |
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| Yellow bark close up |
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