Discover Native Hawaiian Plants Through Newly Released Guidebook

Honolulu, HI – Bishop Museum Press is proud to announce its latest release that provides significant information about Native Hawaiian and Polynesian introduced plants, all of which can be found at Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden in Captain Cook on Hawai‘i Island. 

The book entitled Amy Greenwell Garden Ethnobotanical Guide to Native Hawaiian Plants & Polynesian-Introduced Plants was compiled and written by Noa Kekuewa Lincoln, a former education manager at the Garden who is currently at Stanford University.  His doctoral work applies Hawaiian ethnobotanical knowledge to prevailing issues of sustainable agriculture and ecological management.  The book also includes contributions by Peter Van Dyke, Brian Kiyabu, Clyde Imada, George Staples, and Manuel Rego.

“This guidebook is unique because it showcases one of our properties, the Amy Greenwell Garden, a true jewel in Kealakekua” said Bishop Museum Press Director Ron Cox.  “The heavily illustrated book is also a useful field guide to many of the native plants seen around the island.”

The plants featured in the guidebook are separated into four categories:  Coastal Zone, Dry Forest Zone, Polynesian-Introduced Crops, and Wet Forest Zone.  Within these categories the plants are organized alphabetically by their Hawaiian name.

Amy Greenwell Garden Ethnobotanical Guide to Native Hawaiian Plants & Polynesian-Introduced Plants is available now at Bishop Museum’s Shop Pacifica and other fine booksellers throughout the islands. 

For information on this great new book and all of Bishop Press publications, please visit http://www.bishopmuseum.org/press or call 848-4135.  Bishop Museum Press is Hawai‘i’s oldest book publisher and one of the first scholarly publishers in the Western Hemisphere.

For more information about Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden, please visit http://www.bishopmuseum.org/exhibits/greenwell/greenwell.html or call (808) 323-3318.

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