Description: This book provides an illustrated guide to the Hawaiian native flora. It includes substantial written material that is used broadly to both the general public and to a technical audience.
Brief description: Robert J. Gustafson retired as plant collections manager at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.
Review Quotes: Hawaiian Plant Life is a pleasure to read for anyone interested in Hawaiian natural history, with up-to-date summaries of the geology, climate, plant communities, and evolutionary studies of the native Hawaiian flora. . . . Short descriptions and photographs of individual species of flowering plants (Chapter 4) and ferns and fern allies (Chapter 5) make up the majority of the book. The superb photographs of Bob Gustafson make it a pleasure to thumb through these two chapters, whether to support identification through other sources with the brief description and the photograph, or solely for the beauty of the plants.-- "Ecological Restoration"