HAWAIIAN    SILVERSWORD  PLANT

inside the lunar-like crater of Haleakala on the island of Maui.

(Argyroxiphium sandwicense ssp. macrocephalum)   This remarkable plant and its relatives are descendents of an ancestral

California tarweed (Hemizonia) that reached these islands millions of years ago, presumably by drifting.

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