Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden

[ellidro]

My girlfriend Corrie and I have been lucky enough to go to Hawaii twice this year and what a great experience it was on both ocassions. Here's a quick tour around the Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden just outside of Hilo.

Entering the park

A cool Archotophoenix Alexandrae I think

Pritchardia Canopy

[ellidro]

Archontophoenix Canopy

Their Crazy roots!

Pink Crownshaft (can't remember if JD ID'd this one)

[ellidro]

Nice Waterfall

Chambeyronia

Mini Pineapple

[ellidro]

Heliconia

Licuala Grandis with me for scale

More Licuala Grandis

[ellidro]

The trails in the garden take you to the beach

[ellidro]

An ancient grave and its story

[realarch]

Nice pics, especially the Pritchardia canopy photo. I guess I need to check the garden out, just haven't had the time yet.

Looks like you had a great day too which makes everything even more beautiful. Thanks for the tour, post more pictures if you've got them.

Tim

[Daryl]

Another beautiful part of the world. Looks great! One day I will get to Hawaii

Daryl

[Gbarce]

The pritchiardia canopy is my favorite shot too!! Are those P. Pacifica?

I hope there are more pictures.

[paulgila]

thats a great garden!mattyb & i were there last year.u got some great pix--some of the same pix i got

seems like there are a lotta san diego transplants hangin' around there...

[Urban Rainforest]

Nick, What an awesome place. I was there last year for the first time and it was 2 of the best hours of my life. While not super palm species rich the Gingers and Heliconias were knockouts! Were going out in a couple of weeks and I'm going to have to hit it up again .

Steve