Types of Plants suitable for BAWW25

Heritage/heirloom….

…are those grown for food: Crops that have been in cultivation IN NEW ZEALAND for minimum of 50 years:
Heirloom tomatoes, heirloom beans, heirloom corn, heirloom plums, heirloom apples, kumara.

Useful Crops….

…are crops grown for shelter, energy, clothing, medicine: Flax (used by maori for weaving, kete, mats, shelter etc), many of our native plants used by maori for Rongoa (healing), and for building canoes and shelters.

Wild Crop Relatives….


…are those wild species that can be hybridized with cultivated crops to impart new characteristics (such as resistance to disease - eg. manuka, or those species that are foraged wild plants e.g. puha.

Ancient Crops….

…are those crops that have been cultivated for hundreds or thousands of years and includes those varieties cultivated, or those gathered by indigenous people. They must have been growing in New Zealand for at least 50 year e.g. Bulrush, flax, taro.

So far these plants are being considered by artists who have submitted an expression of interest

Please note - it is up to the artist to check their choice of plant fits the theme.

Alpine flowers - South Island
Aoraki buttercup
Artichoke
Beans - Cranberry Dwarf
Beans - Price’s Cherokee
Beans - Crimson Flowered Broad Bean
Calendula officinalis / English marigold
Capsicum annuum
Carrots
Corn
Dalmation Bean Phaseclus vulgaris
Durvillaea antarctica / Rimurapa / Bull kelp
Ficinia spiralis, Pingao, Golden sand sedge
Figs
Feijoa sellowiana
Fuchsia excorticata / Kotukutuku
Hericium Novae Zealandiae / Pekepeke-Kiore / Lion’s mane fungi
Houhere
Karo
Kōwhai
Leptospermum scoparium - Manuka
Maori potatoes - Solanum tuberosum subsp.
Malus domestica ‘Monty’s Surprise’ Apple
Mapou (Mapito)
Metrosideros excelsa - Pohutakawa
Morus Nigra ‘ Black Mulberry’
Olives
Phormium sp. - Flax plant
Piper excelsum - Kawakawa
Pea - Pisum sativum ‘Dalmatian Pea’
Pleurotus djamor - pink oyster mushroom
Poroporo
Pseudowintera colorata - Horopito
Red Clover
Ripogonum scandens - Supplejack
Rubus sp. NZ bush lawyer,
Solanum melongena - Aubergine
Strawberries
Spinach - NZ
Tomatoes - Golden Grape
Tomatoes - Golden Light
Tomato - Amish Orange
Tomato Oxheart 2
Trollinger grape vine