The Hawai'i Garden : : Tropical Exotics / / Horace F. Clay, James C. Hubbard.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Clay, Horace F.,; Hubbard, James C.,
• MitwirkendeR: Golt, Rick,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: The Hawai'i Garden
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (284 p.)

Hawaii is the home of the world's greatest collection of tropical and subtropical plants. The Islands' benign and varied microclimates have accepted plants from many different places, ranging from the humid jungle rain forests to arid deserts, and from seacoasts sprayed with salt to mountainsides of almost Andean heights. With the enormous variety of plants that have made Hawaii one great botanical garden, comes also a great curiosity and search for knowledge about them.This volume features more than 100 striking plants, grown for their colorful or exotic flowers and foliage. All of these exotics have proved successful for the amateur gardener in Hawaii, including several unusual new varieties and cultivars, only recently made available commercially. Among these are the Hawaiian butterfly anthurium, the jewel of Burma ginger, ice-blue calathea, and a rare ginger from Tahiti.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- A Word of Caution -- Piperaceae (Pepper Family) -- Moraceae (Fig Family) -- Polygonaceae (Buckwheat Family) -- Nandinaceae (Nandina Family) -- Hydrangeaceae (Hydrangea Family) -- Pittosporaceae (Pittosporum Family) -- Rosaceae (Rose Family) -- Leguminosae (Bean Family) -- Geraniaceae (Geranium Family) -- Rutaceae (Rue Family) -- Malpighiaceae (Malpighia Family) -- Euphorbiaceae (Spurge Family) -- Aquifoliaceae (Holly Family) -- Leeaceae (Leea Family) -- Tiliaceae (Linden Family) -- Malvaceae (Hibiscus Family) -- Theaceae (Tea Family) -- Ochnaceae (Oehna Family) -- Lythraceae (Crepe Myrtle Family) -- Punicaceae (Pomegranate Family) -- Combretaceae (Terminalia Family) -- Melastomataceae (Melastoma Family) -- Araliaceae (Panax Family) -- Ericaceae (Heath Family) -- Theophrastaceae (Theophrastus Family) -- Myrsinaceae (Myrsine Family) -- Plumbaginaceae (Leadwort Family) -- Oleaceae (Olive Family) -- Apocynaceae (Periwinkle Family) -- Asclepiadaceae (Milkweed Family) -- Verbenaceae (Verbena Family) -- Solanaceae (Tomato Family) -- Scrophulariaceae (Snapdragon Family) -- Acanthaceae (Acanthus Family) -- Thunbergiaceae (Thunbergia Family) -- Rubiaceae (Coffee Family) -- Caprifoliaceae (Honeysuckle Family) -- Appendix 1. Insect Pests and Plant Diseases -- Appendix 2. Plant Propagation -- Index of Plant Names -- Production Notes