Researchers dispatched a drone into the Hawaiian skies ... had rediscovered a flower species that was thought to be extinct. According to a statement from the National Tropical Botanical Garden ...

“This beautiful plant is a plumeria that is native to tropical America and has naturalized in Asia and the Pacific Islands. Visitors to Hawaii and other Pacific islands may recognize these ...

and despite having plenty of tropical flowers, Hawaii imports a lot of those too. “Mostly from South America, Colombia, Ecuador and a lot of orchid lei that you see or orchid base lei all come ...

prepared the artist for Hawaii’s smoking volcanos, lava bridges and heliconia flowers, with their cascading, claw-shaped buds. “O’Keeffe loved this flower,” Papanikolas tells The Post.