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Near Captain Cook in Kona on the island of Hawaiʻi, the Amy B. H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden preserves more than 200 endemic, indigenous, and Polynesian-introduced plants associated with Kona before Captain James Cook’s arrival. Created from Amy Beatrice Holdsworth Greenwell’s lifelong work in botany, archaeology, and Hawaiian studies, the garden transformed her property into an ethnobotanical landscape organized into coastal, dry forest, agricultural, and upland forest zones. After her death in 1974, she left the land to the Bishop Museum to be opened to the public. Following a closure during a management transition, the property was purchased by a community nonprofit and reopened in 2020.
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Kealakekua, Hawaii · United States
