The University of Hawaii at Hilo Botanical Gardens are botanical gardens on the University of Hawaii at Hilo campus, located at 485 W Lanikaula St, Hilo, Hawaii on the island of Hawaii. They are open daily without charge.
The gardens were established by UH-Hilo professor Don Hemmes at some time in the 1980s, after a student said that they had never seen a pine tree before.[1]
The gardens contain one of Hawaii's best cycad collections, with 125 species from Africa, China, North and Central America, and Australia.[2] It also contains an international collection of palm trees, and all five 5 species of Big Island Pritchardia.[3] Since the gardens are located in a windward area of the university campus, they get a substantial amount of rain.[4]