Description

Manaka Mai celebrates the plant life of Rēkohu,
the Chatham Islands — where isolation, wind
and sea have shaped a flora found nowhere else.
With more than sixty endemic species, Rēkohu
is home to plants that are at once familiar and
entirely unique — a sow thistle that grows taller
than a person, shrubs that became trees, and the
much-loved kopakopa, with its crinkled leaves
and striking blue flowers.
Whether you are a gardener, a plant lover,
or simply curious about the natural world of
Rēkohu, this book offers a vivid, multi-layered
portrait of an island environment shaped
by resilience and adaptation — and of the
people whose lives and traditions have been
intertwined with its plants for generations.