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Lyon Arboretum

I visited the Lyon Arboretum today and wanted to share some of my pictures with everyone. The weather didn’t cooperate and I ended up getting soaked before it was all said and done, but I got to see some amazing plants. I will definitely be going back and would strongly recommend a visit if you are visiting Oahu.

“The University of Hawai’i Lyon Arboretum and Botanical Garden is the only university botanical garden located in a tropical rainforest in the United States as well as the only easily accessible tropical rainforest on the island of O'ahu. The arboretum consists of almost 200 acres at the top of the Manoa watershed with a set of small cottages and greenhouses used for research and community education about plants and the natural environments of Hawai'i.”

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So what you're saying is, essentially, that it looks like your front yard? :p

Very nice! I think I walked through there on my stint on O'ahu and it was just so lush, not that the rest of Hawai'i isn't.
 
awesome plants, was that a poision dart frog i seen?
 
New tourism campaign:

"Come to Hawaii; the live-in vivarium!"

:D
 
awesome plants, was that a poision dart frog i seen?

D. aratus was released on Oahu in the early 1900's fo biological control of Mosquitos . Common in some places on the island
 
It was amazing! Because it was raining pretty hard on and off I only stayed for about two hours. I am sure when I go back I will see a lot of things that I missed on the first quick pass.

As for the names of the plants, other than the couple of name plates that I included I didn't get / don't know the names. Next time I will have to make sure to get names where they are available.

As for the frogs controling the mosquitos, I can tell you these guys need to work a lot harder.....
 
Awesome photos!
 
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Mouth is wide open!
 
  • #11
Holy...wow! That is just gorgeous.
 
  • #12
Happy I could share my visit with everyone and they seem to be enjoying the pictures...
 
  • #13
I want to be there right now!
 
  • #14
Today Lyon Arboretum had a plant sale, which of course I had to check out… They had a wide variety of plants grown on the grounds, as well as plants from a couple of local vender. I didn’t find out about it until pretty late, but was still able to get several nice plants including the following:

Heliconia Cream
Heliconia Black Cherry
Heliconia Golden Torch
Heliconia Barbatus
Heliconia 10-day Rostrata
Neoregelia 696
Neoregelia 696
Nidularium 'Leprosa'
Billbergia 'Nita'
Tillandsia fraseri
Vriesea corcovadensis
Vriesea corcovadensis
Tillandsia dodsonii
Tillandsia gardneri
Tillandsia fasciculata
Tillandsia propagalifera ?
Tillandsia nana
Tillandsia funifolia x stricta
Tillandsia latifolia var divaricata

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I also found out they will be having another one the weekend prior to Easter….
 
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Gorgeous! Place looks like Pandora.
 
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That's really awesome. I wonder if any of those trees or plants are actually indigenous?
 
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Dexenthes, most of the plants are not indigenous. However, there is a large section (over 15 acres) that is native Hawaiian plants. It really is an amazing place. I was only able to see a small part of the grounds on my first visit to I hope to get back for another hike soon...
 
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I like the Tillandsia. Very nice.
 
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I'd love to see those fifteen acres. It's amazing how little native hawaiin wild life there is left. I wonder if they monitor those fifteen acres particularly close to weed out invasive plants and animals.
 
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The entire place is ...., well amazing. I plan to visit when I get some time off in Dec. I will try to post more pictures then.
 
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