# Kalapana May 2009

- By: Brocken Inaglory
- Date: 2009-05-14
- Classification: Photograph
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kalapana_May_2009.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/f/fe/Kalapana_May_2009.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

A specimen of Metrosideros polymorpha, a flowering tree endemic to the Hawaiian archipelago, colonizes a more-than thirty year old pahoehoe lava flow from Kilauea at Kalapana, Hawai'i. This plant depicted may have since been destroyed—the area was partially re-covered by fresh flows in 2010.