New Zealand Flax species
and popular garden cultivars

Phormium – Genus endemic to New Zealand with only 2 species, Phormium tenax and cookianum, the latter split into two sub-species, hookeri and cookianum. Many cultivars have arisen from these species making Phormium a very widely cultivated plant in NZ and the rest of the world, much loved especially as a hardy garden plant. Family – Phormiaceae. Evergreen perennial.

The following New Zealand Flax photos are of species native to New Zealand, or cultivar New Zealand flax varieties planted extensively in gardens and landscaping schemes.

Phormium tenax photography – New Zealand flax, harakeke
			Flax art print by Diana Adams.
Phormium cookianum photographs – mountain flax cultivar, wharariki

Phormium ‘Cream Delight’ photographs – mountain flax cultivar		Phormium ‘Pink Panther’ photos – New Zealand flax cultivar
Phormium ‘Rainbow Queen’ photos – New Zealand flax cultivar		Phormium ‘Tricolor’ photographs – New Zealand flax cultivar
Phormium ‘Atropurpureum’ Syn. Phormium tenax ‘Purpurea’		Phormium ‘Jester’ photos – New Zealand flax cultivar
Phormium ‘Thumbelina’ New Zealand flax cultivar		Phormium ‘Surfer’ Dwarf New Zealand flax cultivar
Phormium ‘Golden Ray’ New Zealand flax cultivar		Phormium ‘Rainbow Sunrise’ New Zealand flax cultivar
Phormium ‘Platts Black’ New Zealand flax cultivar		Phormium ‘Rainbow Maiden’ New Zealand flax cultivar

Other New Zealand flax cultivars
Phormium ‘Emerald Green’	Phormium ‘Yellow Wave’	Phormium ‘Sundowner’	Phormium ‘Elfin’ – dwarf flax	Phormium ‘Chocolate Fingers’