manuka

As a noun manuka

is a shrub or small tree native to new zealand and southeast australia.

As nouns the difference between manuka and kanuka

is that manuka is a shrub or small tree native to new zealand and southeast australia while kanuka is kunzea ericoides , the white tea tree of australia and new zealand, which can grow at high altitudes and in close proximity to geothermal features such as fumaroles.

As nouns the difference between mauka and manuka

is that mauka is the flowering andean root vegetable mirabilis expansa , which was important to the incas and which survives in cold, windy places several thousand meters above sea level while manuka is a shrub or small tree native to new zealand and southeast australia.

As an adverb mauka

is (hawaii) inland, towards the mountains.