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Story: Ngā tupu mai i Hawaiki – plants from Polynesia

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  • Ballard, C., and others, eds. The sweet potato in Oceania: a reappraisal. Pittsburgh: Dept. of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh; Sydney: University of Sydney, 2005.
  • Best, Elsdon. Māori agriculture: the cultivated food plants of the natives of New Zealand: with some account of native methods of agriculture, its ritual and origin myths. Wellington: Te Papa, 2005 (originally published 1925).
  • Horrocks, M. ‘Polynesian plant subsistence in prehistoric New Zealand: a summary of the microfossil evidence.’ New Zealand Journal of Botany 42 (2004): 321–334.
  • Leach, Helen. 1,000 years of gardening in New Zealand. Wellington: Reed, 1984.
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Louise Furey, Ngā tupu mai i Hawaiki – plants from Polynesia, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/story/3571/sources (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Louise Furey, published 24 November 2008.