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	New Zealand flax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		New Zealand Flax (Phormium tenax), known as Harakeke by New Zealand Maori for many centuries, was and still is one of the most versatile plants in the world.
		Flax roots were boiled and crushed and applied externally as a poultice for boils, tumours and abscesses, as well as to varicose ulcers.
		Flax seed oil that can be bought in many countries (aka linseed oil) is extracted from the seeds of the European flax, a plant that belongs to a different plant family.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand_flax (1104 words)

	Flax
		The invention of the flax stripper led to the development of an industry known as ”flax milling”, which was a distinctive feature of the New Zealand economy from the 1860s until the 1970s.
		Flax mills were established on the edges of flax swamps throughout the country and could be easily distinguished from other factories by the strange sound made by the stripper - a high-pitched whine or scream, which could be heard over a considerable distance.
		Flax mills were also characterised by the rows and rows of fibre which could be seen drying on the ground or hanging over fences in the vicinity of the mill.
	www.techhistory.co.nz /OntheLand/Flax_milling.htm (1150 words)

	St Helena - New Zealand Flax
		The fibrous nature of 'flax' plants and their usage for items such as rope and clothing is what links such unrelated plants as the 'true' or Asian Flax (Linum usitatissimun) and New Zealand Flax (Phormium sp.).
		True Flax, and its ornamental relative, Yellow Flax (Reinwardia indica), are both dicotyledons in the Linaceae, or Flax family; the New Zealand Flax are monocotyledons that until recently were placed in the Agavaceae, or Agave Family.
		New Zealand Flax is not renowned for its flowers, as it is the colorful foliage or striking form that is of primary interest.
	www.btinternet.com /~sa_sa/st_helena/st_helena_flax.html (562 words)

	Encyclopedia: New Zealand flax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Binomial name Phormium tenax New Zealand Flax (Phormium tenax), known as Harakeke by New Zealand Maori for many centuries, was and still is one of the most versatile plants on earth.
		As a general rule the hybrid flax are not as durable as Phormium tenax and are usually less tolerant to extremely hot or cold temperatures, prolonged dry conditions and heavy soil.
		New Zealand Flax is rarely grown for its flowers, as it is the colorful foliage or striking form that is of primary interest.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/New-Zealand-flax (2285 words)

	RNZIH - Horticulture Pages - Our native plant invaders
		Most New Zealanders are well aware of the damage that introduced invasive plants such as gorse, broom, old man's beard, flberry and many others have done to New Zealand's landscape leaving a legacy that costs the country millions of dollars annually.
		New Zealand flax has had a serious impact on the island's ecosystem, which includes a unique flora of 49 plants found nowhere else in the world.
		New Zealand flax is also an invasive weed on the south Atlantic islands of Tristan da Cunha where the British authorities have set up a programme to monitor its spread.
	www.rnzih.org.nz /pages/NativeWeeds.htm (1480 words)

	San Marcos Growers >New Zealand Flax
		Phormium tenax, the Coastal Flax, is the larger and more common plant in cultivation; its long strap leaves in shades of green, bronze and maroon are a familiar sight to gardeners in California.
		With some of the hybrids it is the new foliage that is the showiest, and it is often best to remove all of the older leaves as the new ones emerge.
		While New Zealand botanists insist that Phormium cookianum is the valid name for the mountain flax, many recent texts, including Sunset's Western Garden Book and The Royal Horticultural Encyclopedia of Plants, have adopted the synonym P. colensoi as the current name.
	www.smgrowers.com /info/flax.asp (1934 words)

	FLAX
		Flax leaves are long and sword shaped, dark green in colour and often have coloured edges and midribs.
		New Zealand had a thriving flax fibre industry until a disease (flax yellow-leaf, caused by an organism thought to be similar to the one killing cabbage trees) ruined the industry in the 1950;s.
		A leaf of flax was used by the Maori priest to enable the demon causing illness to escape from the sufferer, a magical rather than medicinal use.
	www.geocities.com /RainForest/7109/flax.htm (1173 words)

	NEW ZEALAND - LoveToKnow Article on NEW ZEALAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The physical geography of New Zealand is closely connected with its geological structure, and is dominated by two intersecting lines of mountains and earth movements.
		The healthiness of the New Zealand climate in all parts is attested by the death-rate, which, varying (1896-1906) from o to 10-50 per iooo, is the lightest in the world.
		In 1892 a new form of land tenure was introduced, under which large areas of crown lands were leased for 999 years, at an unchanging rent of 4% on the prairie value.
	www.1911ency.org /N/NE/NEW_ZEALAND.htm (9976 words)

	New zealand flax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	New Zealand Flax
		They soon realised that the native plants that we now know as phormiums or New Zealand Flax, were ideal substitutes for the palms and other plants they had used in their homelands.
		Europeans soon saw the benefits of New Zealand flax as a replacement for normal Linum flax and from the 1820s till the 1970s there was a thriving flax industry in New Zealand.
		New Zealand Flax in the UK In this country phormiums are almost always grown as garden plants.
	www.fernwood-nursery.co.uk /phormium/2phflax.htm (1401 words)

	New Zealand flax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		New Zealand Flax (Phormium tenax), also known as Harakeke, is quite distinct from the Northern Hemisphere plant known as flax (Linum sp.
		Common throughout New Zealand particularly in swampy areas, it is also much grown in gardens as a decorative plant.
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	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-New_Zealand_flax.html (278 words)

	ACRI: Flax at the the cutting edge of biotechnology
		Thousands of hectares of flax plantations across New Zealand supplied a thriving linen industry a hundred years ago which at one stage was bigger than wool production, and only disappeared with the popularity of the synthetic fibre in the 1970âs.
		Heâs particularly interested in the usefulness of flax plants on dairy and other farms to absorb excess nitrogen from riparian areas, but just how much nitrogen they can absorb, and how and when to harvest the plants to prevent them from then breaking down and re-releasing nitrogen, has to be understood first.
		The New Zealand flax being researched here (Phormium tenax) is from a different family than the linum flax, grown overseas for producing linen and flax seed oil.
	www.acri.cri.nz /media/f40cd63b5975bfb994fcb474eadbdd1f.html (743 words)

	Textile Research Journal: Fibers from Three Cultivars of New Zealand Flax (Phormium tenax)
		Sisal, flax, banana, and jute fibers have been investigated for manufacturing composites [e.g., 26, 37, 39, 54] and kenaf, hemp, linen, and jute re-examined as fibers for apparel textiles [e.g., 7, 38, 45, 53].
		New Zealand flax (Phormium spp.) [23] is indigenous to New Zealand and Norfolk Island, and has long been used by Maori as a source of whenu (harakeke leaf strips) and muka for functional and material cultural artefacts [e.g., 3, 32, 43].
		Mid 19th century settlers in New Zealand recognised the potential of muka, initially purchasing supplies from Maori, primarily for the manufacture of cord and rope [15].
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4025/is_200502/ai_n11826582 (1208 words)

	Define New Zealand flax : powered by In Dictionary (InDictionary.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Flax cotton, the fiber of flax, reduced by steeping in bicarbonate of soda and acidulated liquids, and prepared for bleaching and spinning like cotton.
		Flax mill, a mill or factory where flax is spun or linen manufactured.
		New Zealand tea (Bot.), a myrtaceous shrub (Leptospermum scoparium) of New Zealand and Australia, the leaves of which are used as a substitute for tea.
	www.indictionary.com /define/New_Zealand_flax (409 words)

	Burke's Backyard Archives 2003 - NZ Flax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		New Zealand has given the world some fabulous plants, including the New Zealand Christmas tree or pohutukawa (Metrosideros excelsa) and the cordylines.
		Flax was traditionally used by the Maoris to make clothes, mats, dishes, baskets, ropes, bird snares, fishing lines and nets.
		Flax foliage is sought after by florists because it is colourful, flexible and long lasting.
	www.burkesbackyard.com.au /2003/archives/2003?p=3705&mysource_site_extension=printer_friendly_pages (355 words)

	Harakeke/Flax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The sticky sap or gum that flax produces was applied to boils and wounds and used for toothache.
		Flax leaves were used in binding broken bones and matted leaves were used as dressings.
		Flax root juice was routinely applied to wounds as a disinfectant.
	www.doc.govt.nz /Conservation/001~Plants-and-Animals/002~Native-Plants/Harakeke-(Flax).asp (532 words)

	New zealand flax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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		What the Russian is gowns have done the can never go any further, new zealand flax evidence of after men, I knowe not what: Such gown, most uncleanly and I deem that thou emptie their mustie caskes.
	new-zealand-flax.przepuklina.wroclaw.pl (408 words)

	The Seattle Times: Pacific Northwest Magazine
		You'd expect the blades of New Zealand flax to be so densely fibrous as to repel light, but the striped blades of this Phormium 'Maori Chief' are particularly lovely when backlit by sunshine.
		Phormiums are everything you might hope for in a New Zealand plant: tough, extroverted and bold.
		With a name derived from the Greek word for mat, phormiums are known in New Zealand as flax.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /pacificnw/2001/0701/plant.html (812 words)

	bestgardening.com New Zealand Natives
		New Zealand flaxes are wonderful, dramatic architectural plants that are valued, even cosseted, in many Northern Hemipshere gardens.
		Grow flaxes for textural contrast, for their bold form, use them for shelter and for the range of colour in their sword-like leaves.
		Phormium tenax is the iconoclastic New Zealand flax, seen widely in marshy ground, at the coast and, increasingly, in street and roadside plantings.
	www.bestgardening.com /bgc/plant/native09.htm (609 words)

	FLAX - FLAX - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
		It belongs to the agave family, and is native to New Zealand and Norfolk Island.
		The plant grows abundantly throughout New Zealand in lowland swamps and alluvial soils, from sea level to 4,500 ft. Phormium colensoi is the smaller, yellow-flowered species found on the sea coast, and in the mountains.
		Captain Cook and Joseph Banks recorded the presence of flax in New Zealand in 1770, and the first published account of it is in Hawkes-worth's edition of Cook's first voyage.
	www.teara.govt.nz /1966/F/Flax/Flax/en (286 words)

	The Arboretum - New Zealand Gardens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The plants of New Zealand owe much of their uniqueness to the fact that New Zealand was once not an island but a fragment of Gondwana, a super-continent that embraced both Australia, Antarctica, parts of South America, and the Indian subcontinent.
		Then, approximately 80 million years ago, New Zealand became separated from the mainland and by sixty million years ago, became nearly as isolated as it is today.
		The Edward D. Landels New Zealand Garden was dedicated in 1984 in order to bring this unique flora to the attention of residents of the opposite hemisphere.
	www2.ucsc.edu /arboretum/zeal.html (423 words)

	New Zealand Native Plants
		New Zealand gardeners are lucky to have such a variety of foliages and textures in their natives.
		This is a large weeping flax (or Phormium) with fat, dark leaves in shades of brown and bronze.
		The native New Zealand Pepper Tree is a small shrub with red blotches on its leaves.
	www.mooseyscountrygarden.com /natives/morenatives.html (1180 words)

	Phormium tenax, New Zealand flax
		Leaves - The New Zealand flax has long and narrow evergreen leaves, that can be uniformly green, or with pink or cream stripes.
		The New Zealand flax can thrive in wet or dry grounds and hot or windy situations, provided the ground is drained enough.
		The New Zealand flax can be propagated by seeds or by division of the mother plant.
	www.coolexotics.com /plant-390.html (154 words)

	New Zealand Natives - Grasses and Flax
		The strong statements made by the upward fans and rosettes of native 'flax' are the ideal companions.
		Phormium tenax, New Zealand Flax or harakeke, is the iconic flax, seen widely in marshy ground, at the coast and, increasingly, in street and roadside plantings.
		This is the flax to use in the flower border or on a bank, and it will oblige in a wide range of soils and conditions.
	www.bestgardening.com /bgc/plant/nativegrassflax02.htm (884 words)

	New Zealand Flax - LoveToKnow Garden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		New Zealand Flax (Phormium) - Fine-leaved plants from New Zealand, like giant Iris in foliage, their tough broadly sword-shaped leaves rising to a height of many feet in the more vigorous kinds, and of stately effect at the waterside mingled with Bamboos, Pampas Grass, and Gunneras.
		In hard winters even strong plants may be injured or cut to the ground, but the roots seldom perish, and by selection hardier forms are now available than those first introduced.
		Colensoi is another fairly hardy kind from the mountains of New Zealand, with a spreading and graceful way of growth and narrow leaves.
	garden.lovetoknow.com /new-zealand-flax-7d9.htm (364 words)

	EW Project Investigates New Flax Industry
		She said the flax had played a predominant part in Maori culture, and had once grown in abundance throughout wetlands.
		The quality of the fibre was similar to linen and there was the possibility of creating new industries to turn the flax into a high fashion fibre.
		The wax could be used from the surface of the flax blade, other parts could be turned into paper and the gum could be used for cosmetics.
	www.ew.govt.nz /newsandevents/mediareleases/mr754736.htm?version=print (346 words)

	San Marcos Growers >New Zealand Flax Mealybug
		The New Zealand Flax Mealybug (Balanococcus diminutus) is a small soft bodied insect that inhabits the tight confines of the leaf base of New Zealand Flax.
		It measures 2.6 to 5.5 mm long by 1.4 to 2.9 mm wide and lacks the tail that characterizes the long tailed mealybug.
		This insect has been a pest of New Zealand Flax since its discovery in California on the University of California Berkeley campus in 1906 where it was misidentifiied as Pseudococcus diminutus.
	www.smgrowers.com /info/flaxnzmealybug.asp (222 words)

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