Ngā Rauropi Whakaoranga

mōnenehu; mōnehu (East Cape) 

Kūmara cultivar. Cultivated in northern districts - Bay of Islands, Hokianga, Kaitaia - and also in Hawkes Bay and the East Coast. White skin, having white or whitish flesh (Colenso 1880).

Listed by Berridge 1913: 415 as one of the varieties grown by tuber by "an old Māori" informant.

Listed by Best 1925. Best also gives alternative name Monehu.

One of kūmara cultivars brought by Pourangahua (Urewera tradition) Colenso 1881a.