New Zealand Native Plant - Kiekie (Ureure) 

Hey Slick will do some more this year for you mate

PS for got to say that i STILL haven't had a feed from these yet!.. apparently they are the best food in the jungle, but like ya say ya gotta beat the possums and rats and birds!... i've defo donated more than my fair of blood / fertilizer around them tho over the years!

Mauri ora, some places thats their mita

@@purplehaze8079 which places are those? Just interested as Ive never heard it called Kīkī... there is a very similar plant, a close relative in Hawai'i that has mango/apricot coloured flowers that they call 'ie 'ie where the glottal stop replaces our K.

@@toamaori I've heard it said like 'kiki' by some elders in the Wairoa area

Hello Andy, when you see that the flowers and the base of the leaves are white, then you can eat the white leaves. The leaves only turn white when the plant is flowering. You can recognise these leaves easily as they become wider at the base / bottom of the leaves. The flowers are also white and look somewhat like a fingers pointing up in the middle of the white leaves. Don't eat the flowers while they are white, just the white leaves should be eaten. However; once the flowers become fully ripe just before winter, then you can eat the inside of them. The flowers start of white, then turn green and very hard outside skin feels like the outside of a pineapple, slightly rough and prickly. Then the green hard outer skin will turn from green to a pinkish tinge. The hard outer skin will become very soft, you can now peel this pinkish skin off and eat the inside of the fruit. So the parts that we eat are the large white parts of the leaves that surround the white flowers, these are found in spring when most other plants are also flowering. To eat the fruit, we wait for the white flowers to turn into a fruit and ripen, the fruit turns from white to green then to a pinkish tinge and we can then eat the inside of the fruit when fully ripe. If the pinkish tinged skins can peel off easily, it is fully ripe. The fully ripe fruit is found in the middle of the leaves and found at the end of autumn to the beginning of winter. As a food - the white leaves are the nicest part to eat. Hope this helps.

This book here may help explain things better, its one of my favorite books: "A practical field guide to New Zealand's native edible plants" By Andrew Crowe. Highly recommended.

No sorry I haven't.

Show us how how it’s done bro 🙄

And the point is?