University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Botanical Gardens

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University of Hawaii at Hilo Botanical Gardens
Pritchardia flowers
Website	hilo.hawaii.edu/gardens/

The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Botanical Gardens are botanical gardens on the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo campus, located at 485 W Lanikaula St, Hilo, Hawaiʻi on the island of Hawaiʻi. They are open daily without charge.

The gardens were established by UH-Hilo professor Don Hemmes at some time in the 1980s, after a student said that they had never seen a pine tree before.^[1]

The gardens contain one of Hawaiʻi's best cycad collections, with 126 species from Africa, China, North and Central America, and Australia.^[2] It also contains an international collection of palm trees, and all five 5 species of Big Island Pritchardia.^[3] Since the gardens are located in a windward area of the university campus, they get a substantial amount of rain.^[4]