CHR 594659 C – Phormium tenax 'Ruapani'
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 594659 C
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
06 February 2008
Database record updated:
07 April 2015
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Phormium tenax 'Ruapani'
Determiner:
Sue Scheele
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Phormium tenax 'Ruapani'
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:
Sue Scheele
Standardised collector:
Sue Scheele
Verbatim date:
1/1/02
Start date:
2002-01-01
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Notes:
Lincoln cultivar ex Rene Orchiston Collection, Hexton, Gisborne. Orchiston ID No.45.Source: Urewera.Description: Tall, straight, strong, medium green blades. Reddish-brown keel and margins on the older leaf and a fine orange red on the younger rito leaves. Similar to Ruahine but taller, wider with finer fibre. Red flowers. Scapes semi-inclined. Seed pods medium length and width. Uses: Very heavy, strong Tīhore type flax. Most blades strip easily and cleanly into heavy fibre, although some of the para is inclined to adhere. A good piupiu flaxEmDashplenty of fibre, good length, dries hard and strong. When boiled, dries to a rich creamy biscuit colour. Unboiled, it has a greener tone. The early Europeans would tear a strip from one of the long leaves for cordageEmDashalmost impossible to break.
Specimen notes
Subsheet:
Sheets A to C
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