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Discover Plants
- A Digital Library Initiative -

Discover Plants is a new initiative to digitize and unite together desparate botanical information about Pacific Island plants into a centralized digital library. This database will make it easier to locate botanical information and data pertaining to research collections regarding the regions unique flora and respective plant uses. Users can search to locate information of interest in varied collections, bibliographies, and checklists, publications and taxonomic works, as well as links to information resources provided by external organizations and partnering botanical gardens.

Current collections include;

Online Showcases
Hawaiian Heritage Plants
Indigenous Flowers of the Hawaiian Islands
La'au Lapa'au - Native Hawaiian medicinal plants
Lau'au Hawai`i - Traditional Hawaiian Uses of Plants
Hawaiian Names for Vascular Plants

Urban Forestry
Exceptional Trees of Hawai'i Register
Champion Trees of Hawai'i Register
Common Street Trees of Hawaii

e-Floras and floristic inventories
Flora of American Samoa - Rare Plants of Concern
Plants of Tonga Cheklist
Flora of Tokelau

Field Guides
Ferns and Flowering Plants of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
Cycads and Palms of the Hilo Botanical Garden
Woods of Hawai`i