Admired for their unique shapes and colors, Maui's tropical flowers are a visual and tactile curiosity. With warm temperatures, muted light intensity and consistent rainfall, the tropical rainforests of East Maui provide the perfect recipe for growing tropical flowers.

In bright orange, red and yellow hues, tropical flowers blaze the Hana Highway from Haiku to Kipahulu Maui, beautifying East Maui's roadsides, streambeds and waterfalls. Based on solid stalks, the flower heads rise out of the rain forest like flames of a torch illuminating the jungle. These fancy flowers not only grow wild in Maui's low-lying rainforests, they are professionally propagated by Maui flower growers as an important and valued export crop for Hawai`i. Here's a sample of some of Maui's tantalizing tropical flowers.