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Author : Lois Lucas
Release : 1982
Genre : Nature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 113/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Plants of Old Hawaii by : Lois Lucas
Download or read book Plants of Old Hawaii written by Lois Lucas. This book was released on 1982. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to 20 plants of the Ancient Hawaiians. Includes illustrations, uses, proverbs, and poems.
Author : Beatrice Krauss
Release : 1993-10-31
Genre : Nature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 256/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Plants in Hawaiian Culture by : Beatrice Krauss
Download or read book Plants in Hawaiian Culture written by Beatrice Krauss. This book was released on 1993-10-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended as a general introduction to the ethnobotany of the Hawaiians and as such it presumes, on the part of the reader, little background in either botany or Hawaiian ethnology. It describes the plants themselves, whether cultivated or brought from the forests, streams, or ocean, as well as the modes of cultivation and collection. It discusses the preparation and uses of the plant materials, and the methods employed in building houses and making canoes, wearing apparel, and the many other artifacts that were part of the material culture associated with this farming and fishing people.
Author : John L. Culliney
Release : 1999-12-01
Genre : Gardening
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 760/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Native Hawaiian Garden by : John L. Culliney
Download or read book A Native Hawaiian Garden written by John L. Culliney. This book was released on 1999-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hawai‘i is home to some of the rarest plants in the world, many of them now threatened by extinction. Despite a benign and nurturing climate, native species are declining almost everywhere in the Islands. Human-introduced pests, the spread of competing alien plants, wildfires, urban and agricultural development, and other disturbances of modern life are eliminating native species at an alarming pace. In fact, 38 percent of all plants on the U.S. endangered species list are native Hawaiian plants. A Native Hawaiian Garden is an effort to help stem the tide. Until recent years, few people attempted to raise native plants in their gardens, in schoolyards and parks, or around public buildings. But this situation is changing as essential information about raising native plants becomes more readily available. A Native Hawaiian Garden offers the most in-depth treatment yet on cultivating and propagating native Hawaiian plants. Following an overview of Hawaiian natural history and conservation, the book treats 63 species (many for the first time), giving detailed information on all stages of gardening: from preparing seeds for germination to the care and tending of the young plants in the landscape. Habitats where the plants are most likely to thrive are also described, as well as the uses that native Hawaiians made of the plants. Over 90 color photographs enhance the book. A Native Hawaiian Garden has much to offer professional horticulturists, landscapers, and botanists, and gives reason to hope that more spaces around housing developments, shopping malls, and other commercial buildings will soon include native plants. But the book will prove especially valuable to those gardeners who wish to grow and nurture something truly Hawaiian in their own backyards. Among the many rewards of growing natives, the authors make clear, is the opportunity to contribute your own experiences and findings to a vital preservation effort.
Author : Beatrice H. Krauss
Release : 2001
Genre : Health & Fitness
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 349/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Plants in Hawaiian Medicine by : Beatrice H. Krauss
Download or read book Plants in Hawaiian Medicine written by Beatrice H. Krauss. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully illustrated, this informative book describes the plants integral to Hawaiian medicine and healing, and discusses their uses past and present.
Author : Angela Kay Kepler
Release : 1998-05-01
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 941/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hawaiian Heritage Plants by : Angela Kay Kepler
Download or read book Hawaiian Heritage Plants written by Angela Kay Kepler. This book was released on 1998-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost 90 per cent of Hawaii's flora are found nowhere else in the world. This text presents a revised edition of a guide book to these and other plants that comprise some of the most unique ecosystems in the world. In a series of essays, the author weaves cultural and biological, historical and geographic, aesthetic and spiritual aspects of Hawaiian ecology into non-technical accounts of 32 plants important to early Hawaiians.
