Flax is a plant that has played an important part in the cultural and economic history of New Zealand for both theMāori people and the later European settlers. The two native species and their cultivars are also used as garden plants.
New Zealand flax describes the common New Zealand perennial plants Phormium tenax and Phormium colensoi, known by the Māori names harakeke and wharariki respectively. They are quite distinct from the Northern Hemisphere plant known as flax (Linum usitatissimum), but the genus was given the common name 'flax' by Anglophone Europeans as it too could be used for its fibres.
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