Rata
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Rata may refer to:
- Plants of the genus MetrosiderosMetrosiderosMetrosideros is a genus of approximately 50 trees, shrubs, and vines native to the islands of the Pacific Ocean, from the Philippines to New Zealand and including the Bonin Islands, Polynesia, and Melanesia, with an anomalous outlier in South Africa. Most of the tree forms are small, but some are...
from New Zealand, including- Metrosideros robustaMetrosideros robustaNorthern rātā , is a huge forest tree endemic to New Zealand. It grows up to 25 m or taller, and usually begins its life as a hemiepiphyte high in the branches of a mature forest tree; over centuries the young tree sends descending and girdling roots down and around the trunk of its host,...
(Northern rātā) - Metrosideros bartlettiiMetrosideros bartlettiiBartlett's rātā , or the Cape Reinga white rātā, is one of twelve Metrosideros species endemic to New Zealand and is notable for its extreme rarity and its white flowers, somewhat uncommon in that genus of red-flowered trees and plants...
(Bartlett's rātā or Cape Reinga white rātā) - Metrosideros carmineaMetrosideros carmineaMetrosideros carminea is a forest liane or vine endemic to New Zealand. It occurs in coastal and lowland forest from Te Paki in the north of the North Island south to Mahia Peninsula and Taranaki...
(Carmine rātā) - Metrosideros fulgensMetrosideros fulgensMetrosideros fulgens is a forest liane or vine endemic to New Zealand. It occurs in coastal and lowland forest throughout the North Island and on the west coast of the South Island...
(Scarlet rātā) - Metrosideros umbellataMetrosideros umbellataSouthern rātā , is a tree endemic to New Zealand. It grows up to 15 m. or more tall with a trunk up to 1 m. or more in diameter. It produces masses of red flowers in summer...
(Southern rātā)
- Metrosideros robusta
- The mangosteen tree Garcinia dulcis of Indonesia
- An important figure in Polynesian mythologyPolynesian mythologyPolynesian mythology is the oral traditions of the people of Polynesia, a grouping of Central and South Pacific Ocean island archipelagos in the Polynesian triangle together with the scattered cultures known as the Polynesian outliers...
. See:- Rātā (Māori mythology)Rata (Maori mythology)In Māori mythology, accounts vary somewhat as to the ancestry of Rātā. Usually he is a grandson of Tāwhaki and son of Wahieroa. Wahieroa is treacherously killed by Matuku-tangotango, an ogre...
- Rata (Tahitian mythology)Rata (Tahitian mythology)Rata, in Tahitian mythology, is said to have become king of Tahiti when his uncle, king Tumu-nui, and his father Vahieroa are swallowed by a great clam while they are on their way to Pitcairn. When he reaches adulthood, Rata plans to avenge his father. As in the Tuamotuan version, Rata...
- Rata (Tuamotu mythology)Rata (Tuamotu mythology)In the Tuamotu islands, the telling of the full cycle of the legend of Rata takes several evenings to tell. The legend of begins with his grandfather Kui, a demigod who marries Puehuehu. Their son Vahi-vero was stolen by two wild ducks that carry him to a distant island where two witches Nua and...
- LakaLakaIn Hawaiian mythology, Laka is the name of a popular hero from Polynesian mythology....
(Hawaiian mythology)
- Rātā (Māori mythology)
- Rata ("rat"), nickname of the Polikarpov I-16Polikarpov I-16The Polikarpov I-16 was a Soviet fighter aircraft of revolutionary design; it was the world's first cantilever-winged monoplane fighter with retractable landing gear. The I-16 was introduced in the mid-1930s and formed the backbone of the Soviet Air Force at the beginning of World War II...
fighter in the Spanish Civil War