I have maintained THE MAUI PLANT CHRONICLES blog since 2009. During that time, my goal was to write informative and visually appealing posts, enlisting good photography in service of good science.
Although I have thoroughly enjoyed doing the research and writing for this labor of love, my private business venture (ISLANDER VIRTUAL ASSISTANT) is making increasing demands on my time (and energy!), and so I’ve decided that this will be the last post for this blog.
The individual blog posts (except for the first three 2009 posts, which were embarrassingly poor) will remain on this blog site. Their individual hyperlinked titles are listed below (oldest to newest). Mouse-click on the title to go to the selected post.
- The Plant Life of Maui’s Urban Beaches
- Bamboo: The “Grass” on Maui is Fifty Feet Tall
- Maui’s Beautiful Weeds: Lantana camara
- Maui’s Beautiful Weeds: The African Tulip Tree
- Maui’s Beautiful Weeds: Koa Haole
- The Blue Jacaranda: Spring has come to Maui
- The Plant Life of Maui’s Urban Beaches
- Maui’s Drylands Survivors
- The Silk Oak (Grevillea robusta): When Good Trees Go Bad
- Maui’s Morning Glories: Part I – Ipomoea indica, the Blue Morning Glory
- Maui’s most common Morning Glories, Part 2: Ipomoea pes-caprae, the Beach Morning Glory
- Maui’s Prickly Pear Cactus (Opuntia ficus-indica)
- Kiawe (Prosopis pallida): Hawaii’s Tropical Mesquite
- The Coconut Palm
- Ironwood (Casuarina equisetifolia): The Pine Tree’s Evil Twin lives in Hawaii
- The Basic Science behind the Seeds and Fruits of some Common Hawaiian Plants
- A Mean Little Weed from Madagascar: Mother of Millions (Kalanchoe delagoensis)
- Ginger Plants (Family Zingiberaceae) Commonly Seen In Hawaii
- Hau (Hibiscus tiliaceus): This native Hawaiian Hibiscus is a real survivor
- ‘Ohelo (Vaccinium reticulatum): The Fruit of Maui’s Sacred Native Shrub was the Gods’ Sweet-Tasting Gift to Early Hawaiians
- Beach Naupaka: How a Nice Plant gets a “Bad” Name — What do we call it, “Scaevola sericea” or “Scaevola taccada”?
- Koa Tree (Acacia koa): Two kinds of leaves on one tree confuses the tree-spotter
- Banana Poka (Passiflora tarminiana): Look out for the vines!
- Clidemia hirta: Koster’s Curse Lives On In Hawaii
- In Hawaii, an Epiphyte Cactus says “I am NOT a Parasite!”
- Cuscuta sandwichiana – Dodder: a cross between Count Dracula and Silly String
I hope that these posts will continue to be useful to those of you interested in Hawaii’s botanical heritage.
Malama ‘aina, a hui hou kākou!
Mike Garrison
Kihei, Island of Maui, Hawaii
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