Tuesday is Earth Day, and it is also Native Hawaiian Plant Month. One of our most important and beloved native flora is the ...

Ceratocystis lukuohia and Ceratocystis huliohia are fungal pathogens that cause the disease called rapid ohia death, or ROD, so named because the trees appear to die within days or weeks.

But these remarkable trees are at risk from Rapid Ohia Death, a disease that kills ohia trees. ROD has killed over one million ohia across Hawaii island. Diseased trees have been found on Kauai ...

The Hawaii Department of Agriculture, meanwhile, reminds travelers of quarantine restrictions on the transport of ohia from Hawaii island to prevent the spread of rapid ohia death, a fungal plant ...