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Phormium tenax
This is flax in New Zealand, thousands of tons of this plant was used to make rope for the British Navy. Will have to find a photo showing the whole plant. This is a totally different plant from the European flax which is Linum.
In wet swampy areas. Large areas of the West Coast of both Islands had large swamps covered in this plant.
Spotted on Dec 25, 2010
Submitted on Dec 11, 2011
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Cool!