Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
3-666.51.09
Pennantia corymbosa
English: Duck's foot.
Maori: Kaikōmako; meaning means food (kai) of the bellbird (kōmako).
Genus: 5 species.
Region: New Zealand.
Use: for making fire by repeatedly rubbing a pointed stick into a groove on a piece of māhoe.
Botany
Small dioecious forest tree.
Stem: divaricating when young.
Leaves: small, larger when mature; tangled.
Fowers: Small creamy, white; flowering from November to February.
Fruit: shiny, black; favourite food of the bellbird.
