A stallholder holds a yam, Dioscorea elata, imported from Fiji and on sale at Ōtara Market in South Auckland. This is the same species brought to New Zealand by the Polynesian ancestors of Māori, and known to them as uwhi. Little is known about the cultivation of uwhi in New Zealand, but it needs a growing period of eight months or more, and it appears likely that yields were low.
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The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand - Kuratini Tuwhera
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