The name ‘mānuka’ is deeply significant in Māori culture, potentially tracing back 8000 years to early Proto-Austronesian communities off the China coast and Taiwan. Dr Richard Benton, a New Zealand linguist, suggests the Māori term descends from the Proto-Polynesian word ‘nuka’, meaning
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