Rob Tipa

Guest writer

Rob Tipa (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Kahungunu) is a freelance journalist with more than 40 years’ experience as a reporter and editor. To reconnect with his Ngāi Tahu heritage, he researched a series of articles on traditional uses of New Zealand native plants that were on the Ngāi Tahu taonga plants list. This became a series of nearly 50 columns published in Te Karaka magazine over a period of ten years, and became the book Treasures of Tane: Plants of Ngāi Tahu, published by Huia in 2018.

Form, foliage and fragrance – celebrating the native plants of the South Island

A new book about the Māori uses of the plants of the South Island uncovers some surprising uses.

By Rob Tipa | 21st August, 2018

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The Spinoff

Rob Tipa

Form, foliage and fragrance – celebrating the native plants of the South Island

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