Tropical Gardens of Maui was a commercial nursery with

botanical garden A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms ''botanic'' and ''botanical'' and ''garden'' or ''gardens'' are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word ''botanic'' is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens, an ...

, located at 200 Iao Valley Road,

Wailuku Wailuku is a census-designated place (CDP) in and county seat of Maui County, Hawaii, United States. The population was 17,697 at the 2020 census. Wailuku is located just west of Kahului, at the mouth of the Iao Valley. In the early 20th centu ...

Maui The island of Maui (; Hawaiian: ) is the second-largest of the islands of the state of Hawaii at 727.2 square miles (1,883 km2) and is the 17th largest island in the United States. Maui is the largest of Maui County's four islands, whic ...

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. The gardens were open daily without charge. The gardens were established in 1987, and are located in a valley floor at approximately elevation. Plants were labeled with botanical name, common name, and country of origin. Representative plants included: * a large variety of palms, including ''

Archontophoenix ''Archontophoenix'' is a plant genus comprising six palm species that are native to New South Wales and Queensland in eastern Australia. They are tall, slender and unbranched. Relationships between ''Archontophoenix'' and the other genera of subt ...

'', '' Areca'', ''

Arenga ''Arenga'' is a genus of palms, native to Southeast Asia, southern China, New Guinea, and northern Australia. They are small to medium-sized palms, growing to 2–20 m tall, with pinnate leaves 2–12 m long. Arenga palms can grow in areas with ...

'', '' Attalea cohune'', '' Carpoxylon'', '' Caryota'', '' Chamaedorea'', '' Clinostigma'', ''

Dypsis ''Dypsis'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Arecaceae. They are slender, evergreen palms with yellow flowers carried in panicles amongst the pinnate leaves. Many ''Dypsis'' species have aerial branching (above the main trunk), a rare ...

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Euterpe Euterpe (; el, Εὐτέρπη, lit=rejoicing well' or 'delight , from grc, εὖ, eû, well + el, τέρπειν, térpein, to please) was one of the Muses in Greek mythology, presiding over music. In late Classical times, she was named muse ...

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Hyphaene ''Hyphaene'' is a genus of palms native to Africa, Madagascar, the Middle East, and the Indian subcontinent.Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The genus ...

'', '' Licuala'', '' Marojejya'', ''

Masoala ''Masoala'' is a genus of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae The Arecaceae is a family of perennial flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales. Their growth form can be climbers, shrubs, tree-like and stemless plants, all commo ...

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Pelagodoxa ''Pelagodoxa henryana'' is a species of palm tree, and the only species in the genus ''Pelagodoxa''. It is found only in the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia, where it is threatened by habitat loss Habitat destruction (also termed hab ...

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Phoenicophorium ''Phoenicophorium'', the thief palm, is a monotypic genus of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. The sole species is ''Phoenicophorium borsigianum''. It is endemic to the Seychelles, being is fairly widespread on the larger islands of the g ...

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Pinanga ''Pinanga'' is a genus of flowering plant of the palm family in the subtribe Arecinae. It is native to eastern and southern Asia (India, China, Indo-China, Malesia) across to New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua ...

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Ptychosperma ''Ptychosperma'' is a genus of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. Most are native to Australia and/or New Guinea, with a few in the Solomon Islands and in Maluku Province of eastern Indonesia. Some have been cultivated abroad as house or g ...

'', '' Raphia'', ''

Ravenea ''Ravenea'' is a genus of 20 known species of palms, all native to Madagascar and the Comoros. They are small to large, dioecious palms, with solitary, robust grey stems, swollen at base and gradually tapering upward. The species vary greatly ...

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Wallichia ''Wallichia'' was a genus of seven species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. Its species are now included within the genus '' Arenga''. Species The genus is distributed in the Eastern Himalayas, northern Indochina, and southern China ...

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cycad Cycads are seed plants that typically have a stout and woody (ligneous) trunk with a crown of large, hard, stiff, evergreen and (usually) pinnate leaves. The species are dioecious, that is, individual plants of a species are either male o ...

s, including ''

Bowenia The genus ''Bowenia'' includes two living and two fossil species of cycads in the family Stangeriaceae, sometimes placed in their own family Boweniaceae. They are entirely restricted to Australia. The two living species occur in Queensland. '' ...

'', '' Cycas'', '' Dioon'', '' Encephalartos'', '' Lepidozamia'', and ''

Zamia ''Zamia'' is a genus of cycad of the family Zamiaceae, native to North America from the United States (in Georgia and Florida) throughout the West Indies, Central America, and South America as far south as Bolivia. The genus is considered to be ...

''; * fruit trees, including '' Anacardium occidentale'', '' Averrhoa carambola'', '' Chrysophyllum cainito'', '' Casimiroa edulis'', ''

Clausena lansium ''Clausena lansium'', also known as wampee or wampi, from Cantonese wong4 pei4-2 gwo2 (黄皮果, yellow-skinned fruit) (''Clausena wampi''), is a species of strongly scented evergreen trees 3–8 m tall, in the family Rutaceae, native to southea ...

'', '' Eugenia malaccensis'', '' Euphoria longan'', '' Malpighia emarginata'', ''

Manilkara zapota ''Manilkara zapota'', commonly known as sapodilla (), sapote, naseberry, nispero or chicle, is a long-lived, evergreen tree native to southern Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. An example natural occurrence is in coastal Yucatán in th ...

'', '' Nephelium lappaceum'', '' Pachira aquatica'', '' Phyllanthus acidus'', '' Pouteria campechiana'', ''

Psidium guajava ''Psidium guajava'', the common guava, yellow guava, lemon guava, or apple guava is an evergreen shrub or small tree native to the Caribbean, Central America and South America. It is easily pollinated by insects; when cultivated, it is pol ...

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Theobroma cacao ''Theobroma cacao'', also called the cacao tree and the cocoa tree, is a small ( tall) evergreen tree in the family Malvaceae. Its seeds, cocoa beans, are used to make chocolate liquor, cocoa solids, cocoa butter and chocolate. The largest pr ...

''; * Hawaiian endemic and native plants including '' Abutilon menziesii'', '' Artemisia'' spp., '' Erythrina sandwicensis'', '' Gossypium tomentosum'', ''Hibiscus'' spp., '' Portulaca molokiniensis'', '' Santalum ellipticum'', '' Sesbania tomentosa'', and ''

Wilkesia gymnoxiphium ''Wilkesia gymnoxiphium'' ( Hawaiian iliau), is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae that is endemic to the island of Kauai in Hawaii. It is classified as endangered on the IUCN Red List. ''Wilkesia'' is one of three genera, with ...

''. It was closed to public tours in mid-2014.

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