Hawaiian heritage plants
By: Angela Kay Kepler.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Hawaiians -- Ethnobotany.; Ethnobotany -- Hawaii.; Plants, Useful -- Hawaii.; Native plants for cultivation -- Hawaii.; Human ecology -- Hawaii.; Conservation of natural resources -- Hawaii.
Description: "Almost ninety percent of Hawai'i's native plants are found nowhere else in the world. Here is a revised and enlarged edition of a favorite reference for these and other plants (indigenous and pre-contact) that comprise some of the world's most unique ecosystems. 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-232) and index.
"A Latitude 20 book."