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New Zealand flax
(redirected from Phormium cookianum)

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(Bot.) See Flax-plant.
(Bot.) A tall, liliaceous herb (Phormium tenax), having very long, sword-shaped, distichous leaves which furnish a fine, strong fiber very valuable for cordage and the like.
The fiber itself.

See also: Flax New Zealand New Zealand



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By far the best is the plain green Phormium tenax, although the smaller gold and green striped Phormium cookianum would be reliably hardy in sheltered gardens.
 
 
 
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