CHR 594673 B – Phormium tenax 'Atewheke'
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 594673 B
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
06 February 2008
Database record updated:
07 April 2015
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Phormium tenax 'Atewheke'
Determiner:
Sue Scheele
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Phormium tenax 'Atewheke'
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:
18/12/01
Start date:
2001-12-18
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Notes:
Lincoln cultivar ex Rene Orchiston Collection, Hexton, Gisborne. Orchiston ID No.20.Source: Taranaki. One of cultivars sent to Botanic Gardens, Wellington in 1870.Description: Tall, bendy leaves. Interesting looking bush showing blades of several different shades. Some older ones quite yellow with black margins and keel. Young blades bronze with red veining on margins and keel. Very glaucous blue on underside of blades (i.e., covered with bloom as in a plum or cabbage leaf). Bright salmon red inside base of blade when cut. Flowers well. Scapes erect. Red flowers with yellow inner tepals. Medium, curved seed pods. Uses: Good for whāriki and kete as it dries to the colour of corn producing effective decoration. Not a muka flax, but has a nice white fibre. Not easily stripped.
Specimen notes
Subsheet:
Sheets A to C
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