Coriaria spp. Small-leaved tutu
Māori names
tutu-papa (Colenso); tutu-heuheu (Mantell) - in Lindsay 1868
Common names
small-leaved tutu Common name for all these species
Food
Fruit of tutupapa eaten (Colenso 1868a, 1868b, 1880)
Notes
See uses under Coriaria arborea.
"There is a smaller kind, which has a less leaf, much longer, narrower, and more pointed in proportion, with a larger fruit, less highly coloured, but the natives do not eat it, considering it more dangerous than the former. [Coriaria kingiana - Ed.] There is also a very diminutive kind, with a flower not unlike that of mignionette, which it little exceeds in size; it is only found in the interior; its fruit is not eaten" [Coriaria plumosa - Ed.] (Taylor 1855)