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Story: Ngā tupu mai i Hawaiki – plants from Polynesia

Kūmara garden

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Kūmara garden

This aerial view shows a site which includes gardens and stone-row boundaries, in the Wairarapa. The stone rows may have been used to define land-use rights.

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Louise Furey, Ngā tupu mai i Hawaiki – plants from Polynesia – Kūmara, hue and aute, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/17500/kumara-garden (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Louise Furey, published 1 March 2009.