Category: Hawaiian History

How Hawaii’s Anthurium Became Its Most Popular Bouquet Flower!

  Anthurium flowers never fail to mystify people.  From this day since they were first introduced people ask if they are real.  These stunning flowers were brought to Hawai’i from London in 1889 by Samuel Damon. Their cultivation and propagation went well until the 1970s when a fungal disease first appeared. This pest spread so… Read more »