A
part of Bishop Museum, the Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden focuses
on the traditional Native Hawaiian uses of plants and land, and on the
conservation of that plant material. This 12 acre garden includes a 5
acre remnant of the prehistoric agricultural Kona field system of the
ahupua'a of Kealakekua. The garden layout illustrates the four vegetation
zones utilized by Hawaiians in the Kona region: coastal, lowland dry forest,
food and fiber crops, and upland forest. Feature collections include banana,
Hawaiian economic plants, native Hawaiian plants, sugarcane, and taro.
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