During a recent visit to UH Mānoa's Harold L. Lyon Arboretum, Dick Rosenblum, Hawaiian Electric Company's (HECO) president and CEO, presented a check for $16,000 to strengthen the Arboretum's unique program for conservation of rare native Hawaiian plants.
Dr. Dunn, director of the Lyon Arboretum and Ms. Nellie Sugii, manager of the rare plant program, gave the HECO visitors a tour of the rare plant laboratory which is currently conserving about 160 rare Hawaiian plants as well as rare cultivars of taro and banana.
For more information about the Lyon Arboretum please visit https://manoa.hawaii.edu/lyon/.
"Nearly half of all known native Hawaiian plants are threatened or endangered. Because of the lack of remaining habitat or understanding of how they reproduce, many of these plants' existence is at stake. Thanks to donors to our preservation program, we can save plants, one species at a time."
Dr. Christopher Dunn, former director of the Lyon Arboretum
