CHR 594682 A – Phormium tenax 'Paoa'
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 594682 A
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
12 February 2007
Database record updated:
13 January 2023
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Phormium tenax 'Paoa'
Determiner:
Sue Scheele
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Phormium tenax 'Paoa'
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 (Trial plantings 1995)
Verbatim collector:
Katarina Tawiri
Standardised collector:
Katarina Tawiri
Verbatim date:
21/2/07
Start date:
2007-02-21
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Notes:
Lincoln cultivar ex Rene Orchiston Collection, Hexton, Gisborne. Orchiston ID No. 6.
Source: Muriwai, Gisborne District (Mrs Te Hau).
According to tradition, this flax was used to moor the canoe of Paoa when he arrived at Muriwai in the canoe Horouta.
Description: The bush is of medium height with a yellowy green appearance, slightly droopy leaves, soft but strong. Margin and keel have fine bright orange lines. Yellow shading on tips of young blades which are rather Gothic pointed. Flowers freely even on young bushes. Red flowers with greenish inner tepals. Long, inclined scapes. Seedpods short < 70 mm, narrow < 11 mm, twisitng, ridged.
Uses: A fine kete flax sought after for decoration as the mature blades dry to distinct yellow tones-sometimes so yellow that it has been mistaken for pīngao, the golden sand sedge (Desmoschoenus spiralis). Ideal for decorative patterns in kete and whāriki.
Specimen notes
Subsheet:
Sheets A to C
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