Akeake is the Maori name of at least three New Zealand species of tree:

• Dodonaea viscosa
  Dodonaea viscosa
  Dodonaea viscosa is a species of flowering plant in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae, that has a cosmopolitan distribution in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate regions of Africa, the Americas, southern Asia and Australasia.-Description:...
  
  
• Olearia traversiorum
• Olearia avicenniaefolia

Akeake is a small tree that can grow up to in height
This is less confusing than it appears as the name goes back to pre-European times when it was used for specifically for trees growing in different areas of New Zealand; areas occupied by different tribes or Iwi

Iwi

In New Zealand society, iwi form the largest everyday social units in Māori culture. The word iwi means "'peoples' or 'nations'. In "the work of European writers which treat iwi and hapū as parts of a hierarchical structure", it has been used to mean "tribe" , or confederation of tribes,...

. In post-European times it is used most frequently, but not exclusively, for Dodonaea viscosa.