england: "we kill your visiting king & queen, and out of pity for you poor natives, will send a boatload of random invasive plants that will be impossible to remove and forever alter the ecology of your islands."

https://imagesofoldhawaii.com/waiawi/

living in hawai'i, you really see how the colonials were just shuffling around people, animals, & plants like game pieces on a global chessboard...thinking they know best...

#colonialism #ecology #BotanicalHistory #history #hawaii #pacific

learning about how the highly-invasive strawberry guava (psidium cattleianum, also called waiawi) got introduced to the hawaiian islands and the story is just as bad as one would expect...

https://imagesofoldhawaii.com/waiawi/

#ecology #history #BotanicalHistory #hawaii #plants @plants #environment #tropical #TropicalAg #InvasiveSpecies #colonialism