Ko te kōpakipaki, o te kānga (takea mai te kupu Pākehā corn), he momo tipu takea mai te tarawāhi o te awa Atoiaka i te tonga o te motu Mēhiko; ka horapa ia ki te ngā rohe waenga i ngā maunga Āti (Anti) i te raki o te paparahi Amerika ki te Tonga.[1] Ko te ingoa pūtaiao he Zea mays.[2]

Ngā pū hua kōpakipaki raki i Perū
Ngā tipu kōpakipaki mata

Tēnei tipu tiritiria mō haha o tana kakano ki te hanga o te pata kai,[3][4] me te tao kame pērā i te kānga pirau.[5][6]

Ngā tohutoro

takatā
  1. "The Origins of Plant Cultivation and Domestication in the New World Tropics: Patterns, Process, and New Developments" (October 2011). Current Anthropology 52 (S4): S453–S470. doi:10.1086/659998. “Recent studies in the Central Balsas River Valley of Mexico, maize's postulated cradle of origin, document the presence of maize phytoliths and starch grains at 8700 BP, the earliest date recorded for the crop (Piperno et al. 2009; Ranere et al. 2009). A large corpus of data indicates that it was dispersed into lower Central America by 7600 BP and had moved into the inter-Andean valleys of Colombia between 7000 and 6000 BP. Given the number of Cauca Valley, Colombia, sites that demonstrate early maize, it is likely that the inter-Andean valleys were a major dispersal route for the crop after it entered South America” 
  2. Zea mays L. Plants of the World Online. 2024.
  3. Alan Davidson (2014). The Oxford Companion to Food. Oxford University Press. Ng. wh. 484–486. ISBN 978-0-19-967733-7.
  4. "Crop Information: Maize". FAO. 2024.
  5. Helen M. Leach (1984). A thousand years of gardening in New Zealand. Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed. Wh. 101.
  6. "Kānga pirau – stinking corn". Te Ara. 5 Hepetema 2013.