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Potato cultivar. Parareka.

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Parareka

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Potato cultivar recognized by Tūhoe. Dark flesh. No longer seen here. (Best 1902).

Taylor 1870 describes parareka as a large white potato.

The Kurahaupo canoe is said to have brought " no less than three varieties of potato to these islands—viz., the Parareka, the Wini, and the Maori." (Gudgeon 1903)

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28 May 2007
30 October 2023
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