Hiram Fong, the first Chinese American elected to the U.S. Senate, served 17 years before retiring to this 725-acre tropical garden years ago. This land originally belonged to King Lunalilo; Senator Fong purchased it in 1950. The landscape you see today is relatively the same as what early Polynesians saw hundreds of years ago, with forests of kukui, hala, koa, and ohia-’ai (mountain apple). Ti and pili grass still cover the slopes. It’s definitely worth an hour—if you haven’t already seen enough flora to last a lifetime.