Photos: UH Hilo student-grown poinsettia plant sale, sold out!

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Lines were long at the Campus Center Plaza as students from the College of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resource Management sold the poinsettia plants they had grown and nurtured at the University Farm Laboratory in Panaʻewa.

Two women holding poinsettia plants.
Happy customers at the sold-out annual poinsettia plant sale, Campus Center Plaza, UH Hilo. The plants are grown by students of the College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Natural Resource Management. (Photo: Raiatea Arcuri/UH Hilo Stories)

Photos by Raiatea Arcuri/UH Hilo Stories.

The annual poinsettia plant sale was held today at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. Lines were long at the Campus Center Plaza event where students from the College of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resource Management sold the beautiful poinsettia plants they had grown and nurtured at the University Farm Laboratory in Panaʻewa. Sharad Marahatta, assistant professor of tropical cropping systems, is faculty advisor of the project. Plants were $5 each and sold out quickly!

Five students stand behind a table with poinsettia plants on display.
Professor Sharad Marahatta (second from left) stands with agriculture students (left to right), Ryan Helzer, Estreya Enquist, Kendall Tuinstra, and Tai Salinger at the Annual Poinsettia Plant Sale, Campus Center Plaza, Nov. 29. 2018. (Photo: Raiatea Arcuri/UH Hilo Stories)

People choosing plants. Long tables full of red poinsettia plants.

Close up of bright red poinsettia flower.

Customer with plants to purchase.

Overhead view of the plant sale on the Campus Center Plaza.

Photos by Raiatea Arcuri, a professional photographer majoring in business at UH Hilo.

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