Visitors to Foster Botanical Garden in Honolulu check out a map and information about the garden.

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Foster Botanical Garden, Honolulu

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An enormous kapok tree at Foster Garden: awesome to see, even before you get a glimpse of its massive trunk

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Hawaii floraHawaii treesflora OahuFoster Botanical Garden Honolulu

Hawaii floraflora OahuFoster Botanical Garden Honolulu

Double-coconut palm (Lodoicea Maldivica)

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Encephalartos altensteinii, a palm-like cycad from South Africa, commonly called breadtree

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Cannonball tree (Couroupita Guianensis) at Foster Botanical Garden

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Mindinao gum or painted gum tree (Eucalyptus deglupta), called 'rainbow eucalyptus' in Hawai‘i

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Young pineapple plant at Dole Plantation on O‘ahu

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Flowering royal poinciana tree on the beach at Waimea

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This and the next 13 photos were taken in the Waimea Valley Arboretum and Botanical Garden, on the northern end of the island.

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Taro, kalo in Hawaiian, from the roots of which poi is made. Taro was brought to Hawai‘i by the first Polynesian settlers. The leaves are called lu‘au.

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The beautiful and distinctive leaves of a breadfruit tree

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A few traditional Native Hawaiian structures have been recreated within the Waimea Valley Arboretum, which lies in a valley that has long been of historical and spiritual significance to Native Hawaiians, its original inhabitants.

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Heliconia leaf

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Heliconia

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Blue ginger

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Gold tree (Tabebuia donnell-smithii) (I think!)

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Hawaii floraHawaii treesflora Oahugold treeTabebuia donnell smithii