Kūmara cultivar. Anurangi. Tokoke.

Māori names

anurangi, tokoke (Taranaki; Best 1925)

Description

Kūmara cultivar. Cultivated in the northern districts - Bay of Islands, Hokianga, Kaitaia - and in Hawkes Bay and on East Coast. Dark purple skin and flesh (Colenso 1880)

A Taranaki variety. Also called Tokoke (Best 1925)

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Colenso William 1881. Contributions towards a better knowledge of the Maori race. Part IV - on their legends, myths, quasi-religious ceremonies and invocations, concerning the kumara plant. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 14: 33-48
Kūmara cultivar names recorded from East Coast and Hawkes Bay by Colenso.

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kūmara cultivars

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28 May 2007

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2 July 2020

Kūmara cultivar. Anurangi. Tokoke.

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