Ngā Rauropi Whakaoranga

Rorippa islandica

hānea (Taylor 1855), kōwhitiwhiti, poniu (Best). All in Williams 1971.  Panapana (Beever 1991; Williams gives this name for bitter cress, Cardamine debilis) 

marsh yellow cress

Leaves boiled, eaten as cabbage (Kirk, in Taylor 1870).

Leaves eaten ( Best 1902).

Eaten by Tamaki people (Whatahoro 1913)

An antiscorbutic. Possibly plant referred to by L'Horne (a lieutenant on de Surville's ship, 1769-1773 voyage) in a journal entry on the crews" use of antiscorbutic plants (in McNab 1914)