Harakeke - New Zealand Native on Cream

Lovely quilt fabric by New Zealand designer Ned Barraud highlighting our native Flax with flowers on a cream background.

100% cotton. 44 inches / 110 cm wide.

Phormium tenax (called flax in New Zealand English; harakeke in Māori; New Zealand flax 1 2 outside New Zealand; and New Zealand hemp 1 in historical nautical contexts) is an evergreen perennial plant native to New Zealand and Norfolk Island that is an important fibre plant and a popular ornamental plant. 3 The plant grows as a clump of long, straplike leaves, up to two metres long, from which arises a much taller flowering shoot, with dramatic yellow or red flowers. 3