CHR 594669 C – Phormium tenax 'Kōhunga'
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 594669 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 'Kōhunga'
Determiner:
Sue Scheele
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Phormium tenax 'Kōhunga'
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. 16.Source: Maniapoto area.Description: Tall, rather droopy blue-green blades. Glaucous blue-green on underside (i.e., covered with bloom as in a plum or cabbage leaf). Black margin and keel. Scapes tall, erect. Red flowers. Seed pods medium length and width, round in cross-section. Uses: Long recognised as a fine cultivar. One of the favourites of Maniapoto people. Strips well into long, silky white fibres. Mrs Rangimarie Hetet and her daughter Diggeress Te Kanawa use this flax for the whenu in their finest kakahu. For kete, when boiled for one minute, the leaf dries to a very pale creamy fawn. Darker when unboiled. Rene writes: LeftDoubleQuoteA time of great pride for all was when Aromea Te Maipi, a tutor in Māori weaving, came to my plantation and together we collected a bundle of the superior whītau blades from Kōhunga and Taeore. Members of the Māori Women's Welfare League helped her to prepare the whītau and feathers which Aromea used to weave a beautiful little muka and feather kete. This was presented to Her Royal Highness Diana, Princess of Wales, when she and His Royal Highness Charles, The Prince of Wales, visited Te Poho o Rawiri Marae in Gisborne in April 1983.RightDoubleQuote
Specimen notes
Subsheet:
Sheets A to C
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