Hawaiian Flowers
Hawaiian flora is beautifully rare, rich and diverse. A subtropical region, Hawaii has a climate and soil heavy with volcanic ash - two elements that play a role in the healthy growing of a wide variety of plants. Everywhere you go in Hawaii, you will find trees, shrubs and flowers in abundance. You can even find flowers growing on rocks. There are two categories of Hawaiian flora - native and introduced. Native refers to those plants endemic to the Islands. These are the flowering and non-flowering plants and trees that were brought to Hawaii by natural means, such as wind, tides and birds. Populating the Islands this way was slow - it is estimated that only one plant every 90,000 years was added to the Hawaiian landscape.
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