This week, some of New Zealand's unusual flora for your entertainment
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| Chatham Islands Lily |
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| Ti kouka - Cabbage Trees - (Cordyline australis) |
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| Ti kouka flowers have heady scent, sweet, rich, enticing and redolent of summer and warmth. |
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| Wharariki - Mountain Flax - (Phormium cookianum) |
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| Wharariki flowers |
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| Whatariki flowers close up. The honey bees love them |
Wharariki and it's relation harakeke are prized in Maori culture as a weaving plant. Their fibres are so linen-like that European settlers called the plant flax. It is in fact a lily.
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