Story: Horticultural use of native plants

Coloured flaxes

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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Photograph by Melanie Lovell-Smith

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Maggy Wassilieff, 'Horticultural use of native plants - Breeding native plants', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/11888/coloured-flaxes (accessed 30 March 2024)

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 24 Sep 2007