Prices:

	Each	20 or more
1.5L Pot	$9.50	$9.00

Details:

Type:	Flax
Growth Rate:	Medium
Mature Height:	1 m
Mature Width:	1.2 m
Site Condition:	Coastal, Exposed, Frost Tolerant, Heavy Soil, Loamy Soil, Sandy Soil
Sun:	Full Sun, Part Shade
Drainage:	Dry, Moist
Frosts:	Hardy
Features:	Suitable for hedging or shelter. Attractive to birds, insects, lizards and bees. Colorful perennial. Rongoa. Flower colour: Yellow. Foliage colour: Green. Fruit colour: Black. Native. Suitable restoration species.

Phormium cookianum, Wharariki, is commonly called Mountain Flax, is a superb species, one of the hardiest and the most striking. Long arching green leaves all year round, and 2 metre long flower stalks over summer - particularly attractive to native birds. Use as a 'groundbreaker' in new gardens, en masse on banks. Foliage and flowers are great for floral artwork.

Phormium cookianum is a flax up to 1-3 metres tall but generally smaller than Phormium tenax. The numerous leaves are 5-12cm wide, thick, fibrous, droopy, and rise from fan-like bases. The tubular 25-40 mm long flowers are a dull pink or yellow colour. The seed capsule is pendulous and twisted. 

Habitat: Strictly confined to subalpine, alpine situations, where it mainly grows on cliffs and mountain slopes, in seepages, along stream sides or on the margins of bogs.

Flowering: Spring [October - December]
Fruiting:    Summer [January - March]