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Arthropodium cirratum (rengarenga lily) and (behind) Maori kawakawa (Piper excelsum). Rengarenga tubers were eaten by the Maori and were probably also cultivated for food. Kawakawa was mostly used medicinally, but the fruits were eaten and the leaves as a tea.

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