{"id":27619,"date":"2014-09-16T13:04:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T23:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=27619"},"modified":"2021-10-26T12:56:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T22:56:08","slug":"albizia-tree-removal-at-lyon-arboretum-protects-people-and-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/09\/16\/albizia-tree-removal-at-lyon-arboretum-protects-people-and-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Albizia tree removal at Lyon Arboretum protects people and plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ep13RDGcvCo\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/lyonarboretum\/\">Lyon Arboretum<\/a> is removing 12 albizia trees that tower over the main trail and throughout the garden of the popular University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa facility. Albizias are a fast growing invasive species that are very large and have extremely heavy, long limbs. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This particular species is very prone to suddenly having branches break and fall,&rdquo; said <strong>Carl Evensen<\/strong>, the Lyon Arboretum interim director. &ldquo;In the process, they will destroy, crush everything between the trees and we need to remove that hazard.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Albizias caused much of the damage on the Big Island of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> during Tropical Storm Iselle, as seen in this video by Prime Footage. Broken branches and uprooted trees littered the hard hit Puna area, blocking roads and damaging homes.<\/p>\n<p>The albizias at Lyon Arboretum, which is located in the back of M&#257;noa valley, are among the largest and oldest in the state.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27663\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27663\" style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/lyon-arboretum-tree-base.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/lyon-arboretum-tree-base.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/lyon-arboretum-tree-base-260x146.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27663\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Albizia tree trunk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;Some of these trees are over 150 feet high,&rdquo; explained Evensen. &ldquo;Some of the largest tree trunks have diameters of 10 feet across. These trees are even huge by the standards of albizia.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>If the trees are not removed, they will eventually pose a great risk to visitors, employees and the arboretum&#8217;s extensive plant collection.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Most of these are wild collected specimens that have been collected all over the world for the last 95 years,&rdquo; said Evenson.<\/p>\n<p>When a tree is normally cut down, the limbs or the entire tree are allowed to fall, but in this situation that would decimate the rare plants on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&#8217;ve had to incur extra cost in this project to bring in specialized equipment and expertise to bring down these very large trees and dispose them a safe way,&rdquo; said Evensen.<\/p>\n<p>The cost to remove the trees will be about $980,000. They will be chipped and disposed of onsite and replaced with more practical tree species that will add to the arboretum&#8217;s already impressive collection.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We feel that this is the right thing to do at the right time,&rdquo; said Evensen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lyon Arboretum is removing 12 albizia trees that tower over the main trail and throughout the garden of the popular <abbr>ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> M&#257;noa facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[192,9],"class_list":["post-27619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-lyon-arboretum","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27619"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150553,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27619\/revisions\/150553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}