Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden #62, 1 by Metrosideros

Metrosideros wrote:
Thanks Rachel! I hope I can share a few Hawaiian plants with everybody. Hawai'i's rare plants, and fragile habitats are my main concern. Protecting the diversity of species is good for everyones' health.

This is Clermontia parviflora, the most common Lobeliad in Old Growth Hawaiian Rainforests.

Ten years ago (the late 1990's) these plants were common in old growth rainforest. Now they are hard to find.