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Limahuli Garden and Preserve. Coordinates: 22°13′13″N 159°34′33″W. Limahuli Garden and Preserve. Makana Mountain ridge, as seen from the garden. Alula (Brighamia insignis) plant at Limahuli Garden. The Limahuli Garden and Preserve is a 17-acre botanical garden (6.9 ha) and 985-acre nature preserve (399 ha) on the north shore of ...
Died. November 5, 1987 (aged 86) Alma mater. Vassar College. Juliet Rice Wichman (October 23, 1901 – November 5, 1987) was a Hawaiian conservationist, botanist, and author. Wichman worked to preserve Hawaiian culture, flora, and fauna through the creation of the Limahuli Garden and Preserve and through writings about ancient Hawaiian agriculture.
Coordinates: 21°54′24″N 159°30′40″W. Allerton Garden on Kauaʻi island. The National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG) is a Hawaii-based not-for-profit institution dedicated to tropical plant research, conservation, and education. It operates a network of botanical gardens and preserves in Hawaii and Florida.
Limahuli Stream enters the ocean at the park's eastern edge. South of the park, Makana mountain soars above Limahuli Garden and Preserve in the valley. [4] Just before the Kēʻē beach is the Kalalau Trail trailhead, an 11-mile (18 km) footpath that is the only land access to Nā Pali Coast State Park.
Wichman became the museum's first director, and would later co-found the National Tropical Botanical Garden and donate land to become the Limahuli Garden and Preserve to the garden. [10] The first manager of the museum was Dora Jane Isenberg Cole (1917–1988), a second cousin of Wichman sharing great-grandfather William Harrison Rice (1813 ...
Limahuli Garden and Preserve: National Tropical Botanical Garden: Kauai ... World Botanical Gardens: Hilo See also. List of botanical gardens and arboretums in the ...
Pritchardia limahuliensis, the Limahuli Valley pritchardia, [2] is a palm native to Hawaii. It is a rare species, only discovered in 1977 by staff of the National Tropical Botanical Garden in the Limahuli Garden and Preserve, Kauai, Hawaii, where it is now being conserved. It is threatened by introduced rats, which eat the seeds.
Kahanu Garden and Preserve is a botanical garden located on the Hana Highway (close to the 31-mile or 50-kilometre marker) near Hana, Maui, Hawaii. It is one of five gardens of the non-profit National Tropical Botanical Garden, the others being McBryde, Allerton, and Limahuli Garden and Preserve on Kauaʻi, and The Kampong in Florida.