Maori name for the New ZealandWhitewood-tree, Melicytus ramiflorus, Forst., N.O. Violarieae.
1855. Rev. R. Taylor, `Te Ika a Maui,' p. 447:
«Mahoe ( Melicytus ramiflorus) grows to the heightof about fifty feet, and has a fine thin spiral leaf.»
1863. Thomas Moser, `Mahoe Leaves':
[Title of a volume of articles about the Maoris.]
1883. J. Hector, `Handbook of New Zealand,' p. 130:
«Mahoe, hinahina. A small tree twenty to thirty feet high;trunk often angular and seven feet in girth. The word is softand not in use. . . . Leaves greedily eaten by cattle.»