By NORMAN BEZONA Professor emeritus, University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
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Hawaii gardens include hundreds of species of rare palms. As far as the United States is concerned, even the coconut palm can only be grown here and on the southern tip of Florida.

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