Raupo Press
Raupo may refer to: *''Typha orientalis'', a wetland plant *Raupo, a fictional town in the ''Footrot Flats'' cartoon *Reed Publishing, Raupo Press a small press in New Zealand previously known as Reed Publishing and now part of the Penguin Group. *Raupo (1876 barque), Raupo, an 1876 iron barque which sailed in New Zealand and was deliberately sunk in Lyttelton Harbour. {{Disambig ...
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Typha Orientalis
''Typha orientalis'', commonly known as bulrush, cumbungi, or raupō, is a perennial herbaceous plant in the genus ''Typha''. It is native to Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Myanmar, Philippines, China and the Russian Far East (Sakhalin and Primorye). ''T. orientalis'' is a wetland plant that grows on the edges of ponds, lakes, salt marshes, and slow flowing rivers and streams. Use Known as raupō in New Zealand, the plant was quite useful to Māori. The rhizomes were cooked and eaten, while the flowers were baked into cakes. The leaves were used for roofs and walls and occasionally for canoe sails, as well as a material for making kites. Māori introduced the plant to the Chatham Islands The Chatham Islands ( ) (Moriori: ''Rēkohu'', 'Misty Sun'; mi, Wharekauri) are an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean about east of New Zealand's South Island. They are administered as part of New Zealand. The archipelago consists of about te .... ...
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