Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.640337 172.477044
Verbatim locality:
Landcare Research Experimental Gardens, Lincoln (Trial plantings 1995)
Verbatim collector:
Sue Scheele
Standardised collector:
Sue Scheele
Verbatim date:
18/12/01
Start date:
2001-12-18
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.