CHR 594650 A – Phormium tenax 'Taumataua'
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 594650 A
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
16 February 2007
Database record updated:
07 April 2015
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Phormium tenax 'Taumataua'
Determiner:
Sue Scheele
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Phormium tenax 'Taumataua'
Division:
Magnoliophyta
Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Liliales
Family:
Hemerocallidaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Unknown
Verbatim locality:
Unknown
Verbatim collector:
Verbatim date:
Country:
Unknown
Other collection events
Collection event type:
Cultivated
Standard locality
Location:
Lincoln, Landcare Research
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.640337 172.477044
Verbatim locality:
Landcare Research Experimental Gardens, Lincoln
Verbatim collector:
Lara Nicholson
Standardised collector:
L. Nicholson
Verbatim date:
6/5/03
Start date:
2003-05-06
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Notes:
Lincoln cultivar ex Rene Orchiston Collection, Hexton, Gisborne. Orchiston ID No.33.Source: Urewera.Description: Tall, straight with wide, green, strong blades. Pale yellow keel and margins. Seldom sends up flower heads. Scapes very tall, slender, erect. Flowers bright orange with inner tepals cream. Seed pods long (often >85 mm), fat (>14 mm) .Uses: Good for ladies piupiu because of the long blades. With care, will strip fairly easily into long strips of white silky fibre. For kete it dries to a pale fawn when boiled for one minute. Fawn when unboiled.
Specimen notes
Subsheet:
Sheets A to C
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