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This account details five trips to the Society Islands and the plants collected there, along with the author’s personal experiences during those years. The resulting publication that aids in Society Island plant identification is Flora Societensis. Welsh and his wife became acquainted with the islands through a Tahitian girl that lived with them for a few years, and who they kept in contact with for years after. The Welshes were invited to Tahiti through these connections, and thus the following research and adventures occurred. The account includes details of island culture along with descriptions of species found there. Plant collections associated with these trips are curated at the BYU Herbarium and are detailed herein.
Table of Contents
Prologue
Society Islands
The Trip – 1991
The Islands
Botanical Exploration
Expectation
June–July 1991
Death march to the Temehani
Diary of the 1992 Trip
The Third Trip – 1993
Fourth Trip – December 1994
Fifth Trip – 1996
2002 Winter Olympics in Utah
Plants to Look For
What Plants to Look Forioaio
References
Pictures
Publication Date
2014
Publisher
Brigham Young University
City
Provo
Keywords
Society Islands, Tahiti, Tahitian culture, plant identification
Disciplines
Life Sciences | Plant Sciences
Recommended Citation
Welsh, Stanley L., "Society Islands: Tahiti, Raiatea, Huahine, Bora Bora, Maupiti, French Polynesia" (2014). Books by Faculty of the Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum. 20.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/mlbm/20