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Ko te niu he rākau whakatuputupu ki ngā tātahi pārūrū tae ana ki te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa me te Moana Īnia. Ko te ingoa pūtaiao he Cocos nucifera.Cocos nucifera L. Plants of the World Online. 2024. Ka āhei te rewarewa ngā hua o tēnei tipu i te wai moana mō te ruinga.Fernanda Caro Beveridge, Sundaravelpandian Kalaipandian, Chongxi Yang & Steve W. Adkins (Oketopa 2022). Fruit Biology of Coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) Plants. 11 (23).

Te kupu reo nō reo Ahiteronīhia i mua *niuʀ.Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley & Meredith Osmond (2008). The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic society. Pukapuka tua-3: Plants. Ng. wh. 355-356. ISBN 9780858835894. Ko te rākau e mōhio ana ngā tangata ki te marotiritiri hei haha āna kai me wai inu.James A. Duke (1983). Handbook of Energy Crops. Purdue University Ko te puru uwhiuwhi te kakano o tana hua he rawa taketake mō te mahi o te kaha.Douglas Oliver (1974). Ancient Tahitian Society. Ng. 139-143. ISBN 9780824884543. University of Hawai‘i Press.

He tipu tēnei i mauria haere e ngā tīpuna Māori i ō rātou torotoronga, engaringari kare i ora tenei rakau mea ai te āhuarangi makariri ki Aotearoa.Lara Shepherd (2024). "Te Papa’s got a lovely bunch of coconuts – or do we?" Te Papa Tongarewa.thumb|Te wai whakatēa mai kakano o te niu, ka ingoatia te lolo o roro (reo i mua: *lolo) waenga ngā tāngata Ao-o-Kiwa.Patrick Vinton Kirch & Robert C. Green (2001). Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia: An essay in Historical Anthropology. Ng. wh. 157-8. ISBN 0 521 78879 X.

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