Ngā Rauropi Whakaoranga

HOROEKA,  hohoeka (Best 1907), hoheka, kokoeka; ohoeka (Taylor 1870, 1855); koeka, kokoweka (Anon 1993) 

Trifolate hybrids: tarā-a-maui, tarāmaui  (in Beever 1991)

lancewood

Used for bird spears in Tuturau district (Southland) (Gourlay, in Beattie 1920).

Among museum artefacts he tested Wallace 1989 found a teka made of lancewood

Kirk (1889) considered that the tree could be used as an insecticide (The leaves and wood "exhale an unpleasant odour")