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New Zealand flaxes
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New Zealand flaxes

Phormium

Phormium is a genus of two plant species in the Asphodelaceae family. One species is endemic to New Zealand and the other is native to New Zealand and Norfolk Island. The two species are widely known in New Zealand as 'flax' and elsewhere as New Zealand flax or flax lily but are not related to flax, which is native to the region extending from the eastern Mediterranean to India and which was used by humans in...

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

New Zealand flax

speciesPhormium tenax

Mountain flax

speciesPhormium cookianum

NZ Flax hybrid

hybridPhormium cookianum x tenax

Phormium colensoi

speciesPhormium colensoi

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 51756.