Pesikuku

Ko e pesikuku ko e fuʻu ʻakau siʻi ia. ʻOku ne tātāthai, tupu ʻi loto vao ʻo ʻEua, Kao, ... Ko e ngaahi ʻuhinga tatau: Melastoma taitense, Melastoma vitiense.

Hingoa ʻi he ngaahi lea kehe
tavatavamanu (lea fakahaʻamoa)
ʻuamōtukutuku (lea fakakuki)
suka (lea fakaʻuvea, lea fakafutuna)

Tataku
http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org/species.asp?id=6381
Hokohoko ngaahi ʻakau; Vaʻa fekumi ngoue Vainī
Tongan dictionary; C.M. Churchward
Plants of Tonga; T.G. Yuncker; BPB bulletin 220, Honolulu 1959
D.R. Drake et al., Rain forest vegetation of ʻEua Island, New Zealand Journal of Botany 34, 1996