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Keʻanae Arboretum is a six-acre botanical garden on Maui, Hawaiʻi, along the Hana Highway near Keʻanae. Set beside Piinaau Stream in a rainforest on old taro terraces, it reflects both native ecology and a long history of human cultivation. Before the 1940s, the land supported food, medicinal, and fiber plants, and from 1946 into the mid-1950s it was worked by prisoners from Keʻanae Prison Camp. Established as an arboretum in 1971, it became a place to conserve and display tropical plants. Today it features two short trails and about 150 varieties of native and introduced tropical plants, linking Maui’s agricultural past with its rainforest setting.
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