Metrosideros polymorpha
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Metrosideros polymorpha, the ʻōhiʻa lehua, is a species of flowering evergreen tree in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, that is endemic to the six largest islands of Hawaiʻi. It is a member of the divers
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Lehua blossoms
Yellow flower variant
Maui ʻamakihi drinking nectar
Kīlauea
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Kīlauea is an active shield volcano in the Hawaiian Islands. It is located along the southeastern shore of Hawaii Island. The volcano is between 210,000 and 280,000 years old and grew above sea level
Metrosideros polymorpha
…and in areas with poor soils or little rainfall, shrub forms are the norm. Conservation A specimen colonizing thirty-year-old pahoehoe flows from Kīlauea at Kalapana, Hawaii. Metrosideros polymorpha forests in Hawaiʻi have been invaded by myriad alien species. In the wet forests these include the strawberry…
Kīlauea erupting at Halemaʻumaʻu, a pit crater within its summit caldera, on January 16, 2025.
Kīlauea's summit caldera; volcanic gas can be seen rising out of Halemaʻumaʻu, within the caldera (January 2012)
Rainbow and volcanic ash with sulfur dioxide emissions from Halemaʻumaʻu (April 2008)
Painting of the 1891 eruption