Critical piece of Native Hawaiian plant conservation completed
Hawaiʻi has more than half of all of the endangered plants in the entire country and the new Hawaiian Rare Plant Program Micropropagation Laboratory at the Lyon Arboretum is critical to their conservation. The program holds the largest collection of Native Hawaiian plant species in the world, with more than 16 million seeds and 33,000 plants in in vitro living collections from more than 500 species. The new laboratory bolsters Lyon Arboretum’s important work to store, propagate and eventually restore the plants.
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