FAMILY: Cornaceae Dogwood family

BOTANICAL NAME: Griselinia littoralis

MĀORI NAME: pāpāuma, paraparauma, kāpuka (South Island; PlantsDetails.Anon 1993), māihīhi, tapatapauma (all in PlantsDetails.Williams 1971); kawariki (Best 1908), poukata (State Conservator of Forests 1877) Fruit: huariki

COMMON NAME: broadleaf

DOMESTIC: Among museum artefacts he tested Wallace 1989 found a wakahuia made of kāpuka.

CHEMISTRY: Chemical constituents listed in Cambie 1976, 1988 with references.

See also Brooker, Cambie and Cooper 1987 for comment on chemical compounds.

ENVIRONMENT: ''The berries... are eaten by the kōkō bird, which is said to get very fat on such food'' (PlantsDetails.Best 1908) [Kōkō is the tūī]