University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Botanical Gardens

The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Botanical Gardens are a free public garden on the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo campus in Hilo on the island of Hawaiʻi. Established in the 1980s by UH-Hilo professor Don Hemmes after a student reportedly said they had never seen a pine tree, the gardens grew in the campus’s wet, windward environment into an important living collection. Their holdings include one of Hawaiʻi’s strongest cycad collections, with 126 species from Africa, China, North and Central America, and Australia, as well as an international palm collection and all five species of Big Island Pritchardia.

Hilo, Hawaii · United States