Hawaiian Flowers

Hawaiian flowers are well known and loved for their spectacular range of colors, and exquisite fragrances. The orchid family alone, has hundreds of species in the Islands.

The Big Island of Hawaii, is the most botanically diverse place on the planet. Plants, flowers and trees, were originally seeded here by birds, and the wind. Because plants evolved here for hundreds of thousands of years with no predators, they didn't develop the protective mechanisms needed in other parts of the globe. For instance the wild rose in Hawaii has no thorns....the blackberry bramble have no thorns.... and the nettles have no sting.

Almost 90% of the native plants and flowers of Hawaii are not found anywhere else in the world. Although they may have been in other places at one time, they have since gone extinct. The Hawaiian islands have over 5,000 species of exotic plants that were brought here from foreign places.

Hawaiian Island flowers can be exotic, and unique, such as the lipstick plant, bromeliads, and bird of paradise. But they can also be simple and familiar, like wild roses, morning glory, and hibiscus.

For information and pictures on specific flowers of Hawaii,

check out the links below.

Plumeria

Hibiscus

Leave Hawaiian Flowers and go to Magical Hawaii Home