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Coloured flaxes

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Coloured flaxes

The multicoloured display of flaxes at Ōtari Open-Air Native Plant Museum demonstrates the wide choice of colour and size in flax cultivars that is now available.

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Maggy Wassilieff, Horticultural use of native plants – Breeding native plants, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/11888/coloured-flaxes (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.