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NZ Plants
Food and medicinal plants references
(most medicinal references are placed on the relevant pages in the medicinal plant section of this site)
Barrau, Jacques 1963 Plants and the Migrations of Pacific Peoples Bishop Museum Press
Best, Eldson 1925 Māori Agriculture reprinted edition, A.R. Shearer, Government Printer
Best, Elsdon 1924 The Māori as He Was 3rd impression, R.E. Owen, Government Printer
Brooker, S.G, Cambie, R.C., and Cooper, R.C. 1987 New Zealand Medicinal Plants, 2nd rev. ed., Heinemann , Auckland
Brooker, S.G., Cambie R.C., Cooper R.C. 1988 Economic Native Plants of New Zealand, DSIR Botany Division
Burton, David 1982 Two Hundred Years of New Zealand Food and Cookery, A.H. & A.W. Reed Ltd.
Cave, Y, and Paddison, V., 1999 The Gardener's Encyclopaedia of New Zealand Native Plants, Godwit, Auckland
Cockayne, L. ,1967 New Zealand Plants and Their Story,4th ed., R.E. Owen, Government Printer, Wellington,
Conner, H.E., The Poisonous Plants in New Zealand, 2nd rev ed, DSIR Bulletin 99, 1977
Cooper, R.C., and Cambie, R.C., 1991 New Zealand's Economic Native Plants, Oxford University Press
Crookes, Marguerite W. 1926 Plant Life in Maoriland, Whitcombe & Tombs Limited
Crowe, Andrew 1990 Native Edible Plants of New Zealand Hodder & Stoughton
Crowe, A., 1997 A Field Guide to Native Edible Plants of New Zealand, Godwit, Auckland
Fuller, Harry David 1978 Māori food and cookery, Reed, Wellington
Graham, Pita 1993 Nature Lore of the Māori The Bush Press of Auckland
Hall, I., Buchanan, P.K., Yun, W., Cole, A.L.J., Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms: An Introduction, Crop and Food Research, 1998
Harris, Graham 1999 Nga Riwai Māori - Māori Potatoes, The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand.
Leach, Helen 1984 1000 Years of Gardening in New Zealand, A.H. & A.W. Reed Ltd.
Orbell, Margaret 1996 The Natural World of the Māori , 1st revised edition; David Bateman Ltd.
Riley, Murdoch 1988 Māori Vegetable Cooking - traditional and modern methods, Viking Sevenseas NZ Ltd
Riley, M., 1994 Māori Healing and Herbal Viking Seven Seas
Scheele Sue, Walls Geoff 1994; Harakeke 2nd edition; Menaaki Whenua Press.
Simpson, Philip, 2000; Dancing Leaves: The story of New Zealand's Cabbage Tree, Ti Kouka Canterbury University Press