University of Hawaii at Hilo Botanical Gardens
The University of Hawaii at Hilo Botanical Gardens are botanical gardens on the University of Hawaii at Hilo campus, located at 200 West Kawili Street, Hilo, Hawaii on the island of Hawaii. 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.
The gardens contain one of Hawaii's best cycad collections, with nearly a hundred species from Africa, China, North and Central America, and Australia. It also contains an international collection of palm trees, and almost all species of Hawaiian Pritchardia. Since the gardens are located in a windward area of the university campus, they get a substantial amount of rain.
