Barrau 1955

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• 1.5 Horticultural Practices
  • Yam mound
  • Storage: yam storehouse
• 3.2 Introducing Proto Oceanic plant names
  • Coastal strand vegetation
  • Garden vegetation
  • The relationship between garden and bush in Proto Oceanic society
  • The ingredients of an Oceanic meal
  • Reduplication
• 3.6 Wild plants of the mangrove: swamp
  • Bruguiera spp., P ko'a (Rhizophoraceae)
• 3.9 Staple foods: root crops, bananas, breadfruit and sago
  • Root crops
  • Yams, Dioscorea spp.
  • Why so few yam terms?
  • Dioscorea alata, greater yam, water yam, winged yam, TP yam, P iam (Dioscoreaceae)
  • Dioscorea bulbifera, potato yam, aerial yam, air potato (Dioscoreaceae)
  • Colocasia esculenta (syn. Colocasia antiquorum), taro, Asian taro, TP taro tru (Araceae)
  • Cyrtosperma merkusii (syn. Cyrtosperma chamissonis, Cyrtosperma edule), swamp taro, giant taro, P kakake, kakama, B wota taro (Araceae)
  • Alocasia macrorrhizos (syn.Alocasia macrorrhiza, Alocasia indica), giant taro, elephant ear taro, P waeltaro (Araceae)
  • Amorphophallus paeoniifolius (syn. Amorphophallus campanulatus), wild arrowroot, elephant yam (Araceae)
  • Metroxylon spp., sago palm, TP saksak, P hevinat, aevrinat, B natanggura (Arecaceae)
  • Summary
• 3.10 Green vegetables and figs
  • Abelmoschus manihot (syn. Hibiscus manihot), slippety cabbage, bush cabbage, island cabbage, TP aibika, P slipari kabis, B kabis aelan (Malvaceae)
• 3.11 Nut and fruit trees
  • Clymenia polyandra and Citrus spp. (Rutaceae)