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Phormium tenax 'Taumataua'. Harakeke cultivar. Orchiston Collection.

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Taumataua

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Harakeke cultivar. Tall, straight with wide, green, strong blades. Pale yellow keel and margins. Very few kōrari - seldom sends up flower heads.

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Good for ladies" piupiu because of the long blades. With care will strip fairly easily into long strips of white silky fibre. For kete, it dries to a pale fawn when boiled for 1 minute. Fawn when unboiled.

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28 May 2007
30 October 2023
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