Ngā Rauropi Whakaoranga

tātairako, mangumangu, ropi, katote, pikaukene, horeta

These are potato cultivars known in the south:

Horeta was the name of the old variety of potato which the whalers brought.

A black variety was called mangumangu in the North, but we called it tātairako in the South

A potato which was veined inside was called ropi

Name for Derwent was pikaukene (Māori informant quoted in Beattie 1920.

Harris 1997 gives Katote as a synonym for Derwent.