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Momo: | D. spectabile
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Binomial name | |
Dysoxylum spectabile |
Ko te Kohekohe he rākau whakauru o Aotearoa. He mōhinuhinu, he tawherawhā, he tawheraono ngā rau rarahi o te rākau ātaahua nei. He tino rite ana ki ngā rākau o ngā whenua mahana o tea o. Puta tonu ake ngā ngā kohepu, arā, ngā hua o te Kohekohe, i te tīwai. Kia māoa te hua, ka tītore, ka kitea he whero te kiko. Ki ētahi, he ingoa reo Māori anō, arā he Kohe, he Māota. Ko te ingoa o "kohekohe" tūātia ka maumahara ki ngā tātā "kohe", te ingoa o mua mō te momo tipu Schizostachyum glaucifolium whakatuputupu ki ngā motu pārūrū o te Ao-o-Kiwa.[1] Ko te ingoa pūtaiao he Dysoxylum spectabile,[2] ko te ingoa reo Pākehā he New Zealand Mahogany.