University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Botanical Gardens
Botanical gardens in Hilo, Hawaiʻi, United States
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The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Botanical Gardens are botanical gardens on the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo campus, located at 485 W Lanikaula St, Hilo, Hawaiʻi on the island of Hawaiʻi. They are open daily without charge.
The gardens were established by UH-Hilo professor Don Hemmes at some time in the 1980s, after a student said that they had never seen a pine tree before.[1]
The gardens contain one of Hawaiʻi's best cycad collections, with 126 species from Africa, China, North and Central America, and Australia.[2] It also contains an international collection of palm trees, and all five 5 species of Big Island Pritchardia.[3] Since the gardens are located in a windward area of the university campus, they get a substantial amount of rain.[4]
