koromiko
1. (noun) koromiko, Hebe elliptica - a native shrub with small, thick, folded leaves in four neat rows, white flowers. Forms a large part of shoreline scrub. Wood was used for making fire; Hebe salicifolia and Hebe stricta - native shrubs with willow-like leaves creased along the centre line, each pair at right angles to the one below it. Flowers are white or light blue. Commonly grow on banks.
Ka taona taua ika nei ki te umu, ka rautaongia ki te koromiko (NM 1928:29). / That fish was cooked in the oven wrapped with koromiko leaves.
See also kōkōmuka
koromiko tāranga
1. (noun) koromiko tāranga, Hebe stenophylla - a shrub found throughout the North and South Islands in forests and on the banks of streams. The light green leaves are narrow and lance-shaped. White to lilac flowers appear in profusion in summer.
See also kōkōmuka tāranga
kōkōmuka
1. (noun) koromiko, Hebe elliptica - a native shrub with small, thick, folded leaves in four neat rows, white flowers. Forms a large part of shoreline scrub. Wood was used for making fire; Hebe salicifolia and Hebe stricta - native shrubs with willow-like leaves creased along the centre line, each pair at right angles to the one below it. Flowers are white or light blue. Commonly grow on banks. .
koromuka
1. (noun) koromiko, Hebe elliptica - a native shrub with small, thick, folded leaves in four neat rows, white flowers. Forms a large part of shoreline scrub. Wood was used for making fire; Hebe salicifolia and Hebe stricta - native shrubs with willow-like leaves creased along the centre line, each pair at right angles to the one below it. Flowers are white or light blue. Commonly grow on banks.
See also koromiko
puapua-a-Atutahi
1. (noun) flower fungus, Aseroe rubra - a fungus that grows in spring, usually found on the ground among whauwhaupaku, kōhūhū and koromiko trees.
See also puapua-a-Autahi
tauhinu
1. (noun) cottonwood, Ozothamnus leptophyllus - also called tauhinu korokio and tauhinu koromiko. A native tree with greyish-green, small leaves with fine white hair underneath and curled edges. Flowers are cream and in clusters and occur throughout summer. Found in both the North and South Islands from coastal to lower montane shrubland and grassland.
2. (noun) tauhinu, Pomaderris phylicifolia - shrub to 1 m tall with leaf margins incurved. Locally very common in northern North Island. A small shrub to 1.5m tall with hairy twigs bearing masses of small narrow wrinkled leaves and clusters of white to pale yellow flowers. Leaves 10-30mm long by 3-10mm wide, margins inrolled, underside fuzzy. Fruit dry, small.
