A fellow docent at the San Francisco Botanical Garden first introduced me to flowering maple (Abutilon spp), and it was love at first sight. I’ve always been a sucker for papery blossoms in bright ...

Then we saw the Haleakala Silverswords. This exceedingly rare plant, Argyroxiphium sandwicense subsp. macrocephalum is only found on this mountain in Maui. A relative, the Mauna Kea Silversword is ...

The lovely Abutilon Indicum has yellow blossoms and is grown for its medicinal properties. Its leaves have a bitter and barely pungent flavour. Kanghi is another name for it. Additionally ...

Most visitors to Hawaiʻi know about Hawaiʻi’s endangered and protected animals, from Hawaiian monk seals to palila (finch-billed Hawaiian honeycreeper) to the colorful humuhumunukunukuapuaʻa (reef ...

These charming, bellshaped blooms are a great addition. Hanging like sweet little petticoats on a tree, the flowers of Chinese lanterns (Abutilon sp.) are certainly a sight to behold. Their delicate, ...

Why do some plants grow into large woody shrubs or colossal trees, while others remain small and never produce wood in their stems? It's an evolutionary puzzle that baffled Charles Darwin more ...

Scientists are sounding the alarm. The biodiversity of islands around the world is becoming increasingly threatened, due in large part to habitat loss, overexploitation, invasive species and ...

COSY (↔) and HMBC (↷) correlations of 1. The COSY spectrum showed the correlations of olefinic protons at δ 5.58 and δ 5.50 with δ 2.00-2.02 and 1.90-1.92. Also, H-17 at δ 5.50 showed correlation with ...