Wahiawa Botanical Garden
The Wahiawa Botanical Garden, is a botanical garden on a high plateau in central Oahu, Hawaii, United States, located between the Wai'anae and Ko'olau mountain ranges. It is one of the Honolulu Botanical Gardens, and home to a collection of tropical flora requiring a relatively cool environment, with emphasis on native Hawaiian plants. It is nicknamed the "tropical jewel" of the Botanical Gardens. The Garden's site began in the 1920s, when the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association leased land from the State of Hawaii for experimental tree planting. Most of the Garden's large trees date from that era. The property was transferred to Honolulu in 1950, and opened as a botanical garden in 1957. It is open seven days a week, from 9am to 4 pm.Plant collections
The Garden's collections include: Blue Ginger, Hāpuu ii, Koa, Blue Jacaranda, Nageia nagi, Angiopteris evecta, Shaving Brush Tree, Autograph Tree, Nutmeg, Allspice, Travellers' Palm, Chrysophyllum oliviforme, Common Screwpine, Parkia javanica, Guanacaste, Candle Tree, Elephant Apple, Moreton Bay Fig, Queensland Kauri, Brownea macrophylla, Chicle, Camphor Tree, Mexican Cedar, Bamboo, Rainbow Eucalyptus, Ochrosia elliptica, Iei.e., and Māmaki.
