{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = Karaka
| image = Corynocarpuslaevigatus012.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Celastrales]]
| familia = [[Corynocarpaceae]]
| genus = [[Corynocarpus]]
| species = '''''C. laevigatus'''''
| binomial = ''Corynocarpus laevigatus''
}}

[[Image:Corynocarpuslaevigatus.jpg|thumb|left|He whakaahua nā John Frederick Miller]]Ko te '''Karaka''' he rākau whakaruruhau o [[Aotearoa]]. Ko Karaka hoki te ingoa o ngā hua. He mōhinuhinu, he kāriki, he kiriuka ngā rau. Kia tūpato rawa te mahi i ngā hua hei kai, kei mate. Ki te [[reo Moriori]], he ingoa kē mō te rākau nei, arā he ''Kopi''. Ko te ingoa pūtaiao he ''Corynocarpus laevigatus''. He ingoa [[reo Pākehā]] anō, arā, he ''New Zealand Laurel''; engari kāhore e tino rangona ana i ēnei rā.

==Hoto ki waho==
* ''New Zealand Plant Conservation Network'', URL: [http://www.nzpcn.org.nz/vascular_plants/detail.asp?PlantID=1808 ''Corynocarpus laevigatus''] 

==Tohutoro==
*Metcalf, Laurie, 2002. ''A Photographic Guide to Trees of New Zealand''. Tāmaki-makau-rau: New Holland.
*Salmon, J.T., 1986. ''The Native Trees of New Zealand''. Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara: Heinneman Reed.

{{Rākau o Aotearoa}}
{{Maramara}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Karaka}}
[[Category:Rākau whakaruruhau o Aotearoa]]

[[en:Karaka (tree)]]
[[es:Corynocarpus laevigatus]]