These plant species grow in the salt spray and loose sand of beaches and the moist lowland slopes of volcanoes. They flourish in poor soils and under very harsh climatic conditions.
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Chinese Violet (Asystasia gangetica), Ho'okipa Beach Park, north Maui. Classified as an aggressive invasive weed introduced to the Islands in the 1920s. It smothers all other plant life and forms dense infestations.
Chinese Violet (Asystasia gangetica) growing on a stabilized sand dune at Kanaha Beach Park, north Maui. Classified as an aggressive invasive weed introduced to the Islands in the 1920s. It smothers all other plant life and forms dense infestations.
Chinese Violet (Asystasia gangetica), Ho'okipa Beach Park, north Maui. Classified as an aggressive invasive weed introduced to the Islands in the 1920s. It smothers all other plant life and forms dense infestations.
Chinese Violet (Asystasia gangetica), Ho'okipa Beach Park, north Maui. Classified as an aggressive invasive weed introduced to the Islands in the 1920s. It smothers all other plant life and forms dense infestations.
Mamane (Sophora chrysophylla), growing near the Kahekili Highway at Kahakuloa Bay, west Maui. An endangered native species that was almost driven to extinction by overgrazing by domestic goats.
A small stand of Cook Pines (Araucaria columnaris) growing on the marine terraces overlooking Ho'okipa Beach, north Maui. Despite being coniferous trees, they are not true pine trees.
Close-up shot of the foliage of the Cook Pine (Araucaria columnaris). Ho'okipa Beach, north Maui.
Hau (Hibiscus tiliaceaus), Kanaha Beach, north Maui.
Chinese Violet (Asystasia gangetica), Ho'okipa Beach Park, north Maui. Classified as an aggressive invasive weed introduced to the Islands in the 1920s. It smothers all other plant life and forms dense infestations.
Chinese Violet (Asystasia gangetica), Ho'okipa Beach Park, north Maui. Classified as an aggressive invasive weed introduced to the Islands in the 1920s. It smothers all other plant life and forms dense infestations.
Chinese Violet (Asystasia gangetica), Ho'okipa Beach Park, north Maui. Classified as an aggressive invasive weed introduced to the Islands in the 1920s. It smothers all other plant life and forms dense infestations.
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