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Metrosideros
Keaau, HI
July 11, 2008
2:55 AM Post #5239777
| The following are shots of rare rainforest plants from locations on windward Hawai'i. Enjoy!
This is a tree fern known as meu, Cibotium hawaiiense. It is from a 10,000 year old kipuka in Pu'u Maka'ala. Other Cibotium are known as hapu'u. This one only occurs in old growth forests.
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Metrosideros
Keaau, HI
July 11, 2008
3:09 AM Post #5239787
| Here is the inflorescence of Cyanea pilosa ssp. longipedunculata. A Lobeliad of old growth forests. This one is from Ola'a Forest Reserve. 
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Metrosideros
Keaau, HI
July 11, 2008
3:20 AM Post #5239801
| Here is Cyanea degeneriana; another Lobeliad from Ola'a. This one is named after Otto Degener, one of Hawai'i's more notable botanists. 
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Metrosideros
Keaau, HI
July 11, 2008
3:32 AM Post #5239814
| This is a juvenile form of Cyanea tritomantha. An endangered Lobeliad from Pu'u Maka'ala Natural Area Reserve.
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Metrosideros
Keaau, HI
July 11, 2008
3:41 AM Post #5239817
| This is the adult form of Cyanea tritomantha.
Cyanea species are known in Hawaiian as haha!
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Metrosideros
Keaau, HI
July 11, 2008
3:53 AM Post #5239820
| An endangered mint in Hawai'i is Phyllostegia floribunda. This is from Pu'u Maka'ala. 
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Metrosideros
Keaau, HI
July 11, 2008
4:03 AM Post #5239824
| Phyllostegia vestita, another mint from Pu'u Maka'ala. 
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Metrosideros
Keaau, HI
July 11, 2008
4:21 AM Post #5239830
| There are three Glycine ferns in Hawai'i, here is a shot of all three: From top, then left to right, Dicranopteris linearis, Sticherus owyhensis, and Diplopterygium pinnatum. The first two are known as uluhe, and the last, uluhe lau nui.
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Metrosideros
Keaau, HI
July 11, 2008
4:34 AM Post #5239836
| Hawai'i contains many endemic plants, and also has endemic mushrooms.
This one is Rhodocollybia laulaha, from Pu'u Maka'ala forest understory. The largest mushroom from native rainforests.
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Metrosideros
Keaau, HI
July 11, 2008
4:45 AM Post #5239845
| An emergent at Pu'u Maka'ala is Pritchardia beccariana, or loulu. This is a palm which one can easily look up to! 
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Metrosideros
Keaau, HI
July 11, 2008
4:58 AM Post #5239854
| These are the unusual flowers of Clermontia montis-loa, or 'oha wai. A Lobeliad from montane rainforests on the Saddle. 
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Metrosideros
Keaau, HI
July 11, 2008
5:12 AM Post #5239868
| This is the most common of Hawaiian Gesneriads; Cyrtandra hawaiiensis, or ha'iwale. This one is from Nanawale Forest Reserve. 
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Metrosideros
Keaau, HI
July 11, 2008
5:34 AM Post #5239885
| After spending the day in the forest, it's always good to get back home!
I'll show more of the Big Island soon.
Aloha, Dave
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Dutchlady1
Naples, FL
(Zone 10a)
July 11, 2008
7:16 AM Post #5240034
| Thanks for the visit!! Very interesting. |
Braveheartsmom
Kihei, HI
(Zone 11)
July 11, 2008
10:56 AM Post #5240902
| Dave, thank you for the forest tour and for telling us what we are looking at, Hetty's right - it was most interesting, with beautiful clear photos. I especially liked the one of the mushrooms, how big are they in real life, and are they edible? The orchid and butterfly is especially gorgeous too. I love to go to the windward side of the islands and would live there if I had my 'druthers, now I will have more of an appreciation of what I am looking at, although I think maybe your forests are slightly different than Hana way? Possibly more rain?
Aloha. |
goofybulb
El Paso, TX
(Zone 8a)
July 11, 2008
11:11 AM Post #5240974
| Beautiful! I've never been in a rainforest before, it is surely very spectacular! Ditto on the mushroom question! I am waiting for more pictures! |
Metrosideros
Keaau, HI
July 11, 2008
1:41 PM Post #5241716
| Rhodocollybia laulaha gets to be about three-inches across, and the ones above were that size. They are not considered poisonous, but they have not been described as good eating either!
These mushrooms are long lived and may remain on a rotting log for several weeks before withering away.
They only occur in old growth montane rainforest, and these were found at 3,700 ft. in Pu'u Maka'ala.
Aloha, Dave |
tbmontserrat
Isles Bay
(Montserrat)
(Zone 11)
July 11, 2008
6:11 PM Post #5243152
| Great pictures, Dave. Thanks for the wonderful reminder. We took a trip to the Big Island about 5 years ago. We visited a couple of the rainforest there, they were spectacular. Our visit to Hawaii is what started my interest in tropical gardens. Like I said thanks for bringing back wonderful memories.
Tina |
pepper23
KC Metro area, MO
(Zone 5b)
July 11, 2008
8:54 PM Post #5243920
| Great pics and thanks for the tour. Now we need more pics!! :~) |
Texasgal77
Baytown, TX
(Zone 9a)
July 12, 2008
12:46 AM Post #5245085
| Great shots! Thanks for the tour! Aloha! |
goofybulb
El Paso, TX
(Zone 8a)
July 12, 2008
1:14 AM Post #5245149
| Yeah! More pictures! More trips! Please! |
lorien4
Camarillo, CA
July 12, 2008
11:48 PM Post #5249974
| Most people do not realize that Hawai'i is home to to some of the most endangered plants in the world. Thanks for highlighting some of these rare and endemic plants for the DG community. Really liked your photos of the lobeliads, which are such spectacular plants.
Mahalo Nui
(photo of Ke'anae on Mau'i)
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AlohaHoya
Keaau, HI
(Zone 11)
July 13, 2008
6:05 PM Post #5253507
| Been gone...just found this thread. Dave...what a wonderful 'trip' thru the forests...and what an education. Wish I could go on a hike one day with you...but I fear you might be a bit too energetic for me!!! Bob would go!!!
Thanks again,
Aloha nui loa |
Islandshari
Kwajalein
(Marshall Islands)
(Zone 11)
July 15, 2008
11:42 PM Post #5266529
| Rain forests are the most spectaular sights. Thank you so much for the tour Dave! We were on the island of Pohnpei with some friends a while back, one of whom was the science teacher here on Kwaj. He was so excited getting up into the rain forest! Kept saying he thought we had been exagerating, etc. about the flora and fauna, but he kept finding plants that only grow in rain forests, and he was just so excited that we all caught his enthusiasm, and came down the mountains feeling so special. I think just breathing that rarified air is theraputic in many ways.
Thanks again for sharing your tour!
Yokwe,
Shari |
mike_in_NZ
Atawhai,Nelson
(New Zealand)
(Zone 10a)
July 18, 2008
6:36 AM Post #5278397
| It's quite remarkable how similar rainforests are around the world with regards to plants that live in them. We have many ferns ( as does Australia) which closely resemble some of the Hawaian ones shown.
Mike
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