So far, those low-altitude specimens — including several species of cedar, cypress, and pine — appear to be growing well, said Hawaii Agricultural Research Center horticulturist Aileen Yeh.

“We all saw the headlines about this little guy,” said Hawaii Agricultural Research Center horticulturist Aileen Yeh during a meeting of the Hawaii Farm Bureau on Wednesday, showing an image ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- Closing out the year, over 90% of Hawaii's native flowering plants, are endemic to the state. If Hawaii loses them, they'd be gone forever. The plant extinction ...

After the heavy rains and high winds of two rare, large storms, Hawaii botanists are hoping the islands’ rarest plants have come through unscathed. Thanks to its geographic isolation in the ...

Some of the world’s rarest plants moved a step closer to extinction days ago, when vandals broke into a highly specialized greenhouse in Hawaii and caused widespread destruction, state officials ...