Ngā Rauropi Whakaoranga

makaweroa; hiraka (a name for fibre resembling silk) 

Harakeke cultivar. Medium height, fairly straight, strong, soft leaf. Pale green with orange brown margin and keel. Very few kōrari. Seldom flowers.

With care, the leaf strips easily and cleanly into white, rather delicate silky fibre. needs hardly any dressing to prepare it for use in soft, fine muka kete.