Posted by shiny on 2019-03-08 22:20:29 UTC and edited at 2020-03-08 22:20:29 UTC

Note from Koanga institute about huakaroro taewa potato

Sent to Koanga by Rex Mundy of Kerikeri. He said it came from the Banks Peninsula, "growing there as long as the locals can remember at an isolated bay, among the boulders on the foreshore. The runners went long distances underground with potatoes at intervals along them".

Also sent to Koanga by Grace from Kaitaia with a similar story but from Great Barrier where the Maori grew them early in the season and at harvest time took them out to the outer islands to eat while mutton birding.