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    New Zealand flax describes the common New Zealand perennial plants Phormium tenax and Phormium colensoi, known by the Māori names harakeke and wharariki...
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    bienne, called pale flax. The plants called "flax" in New Zealand are, by contrast, members of the genus Phormium. Several other species in the genus Linum...
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    Phormium (redirect from New zealand flax)
    widely known in New Zealand as flax or their Māori names wharariki and harakeke respectively, and elsewhere as New Zealand flax or flax lily, but they...
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    industry in New Zealand Flax in New Zealand Kiwifruit industry in New Zealand Genetic engineering in New Zealand Pesticides in New Zealand Hump and hollow...
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    Phormium tenax (called flax in New Zealand English; harakeke in Māori; New Zealand flax outside New Zealand; and New Zealand hemp in historical nautical...
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  • holy flax, a species of flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae Phormium, New Zealand flax or flax lily Phormium tenax, flax or New Zealand flax Phormium...
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    New Zealand (Māori: Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui)...
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    of New Zealand encompass the gender, ethnic, religious, geographic, and economic backgrounds of the 5.3 million people living in New Zealand. New Zealanders...
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    The human history of New Zealand can be dated back to between 1320 and 1350 CE, when the main settlement period started, after it was discovered and settled...
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    for Māori food, water, wood, flax and sex. Their increasing lawlessness and plans for formal settlement by the New Zealand Company were two of the drivers...
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     128–130. Belich 1986a, pp. 131–133. Cowan, James (1955). "Flax-masked Palisade". The New Zealand Wars: A History of the Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering...
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    wearing a kaitaka (flax cloak). The female figure is said to be a depiction of Zealandia, a common national personification of New Zealand during the first...
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    – see below), also called mountain flax, or wharariki in Māori, is a perennial plant that is endemic to New Zealand. The greenish, yellow or orange flowers...
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    history of New Zealand, its constitution, and its national mythos. It has played a major role in the treatment of the Māori people in New Zealand by successive...
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    This is a list of lakes in New Zealand. A lake's location is identified by the region and either the territorial authority or national park (N.P.). There...
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    Hamilton (Māori: Kirikiriroa) is an inland city in the North Island of New Zealand. Located on the banks of the Waikato River, it is the seat and most...
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    "Many islands" or Maungahuka "Snowy mountains") are an archipelago of New Zealand, lying 465 km (289 mi) south of the South Island. The main Auckland Island...
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    of 67) in New Zealand, and has a population of 90,000 – about two-thirds of the total population of the Taranaki Region and 1.7% of New Zealand's population...
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    combined French and Bavarian force. The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "flax stream" for the town's Māori name, Waiharakeke...
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    Barnet Burns (category British expatriates in New Zealand)
    Australia and found employment as a trader of flax in New Zealand in the 1830s. Burns returned to Europe in 1835 and spent most of his remaining years as...
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    local Flax Stripper Museum tells the history of the once thriving flax industry, and claims Foxton as the Flax Capital of New Zealand. NZ Flax (Phormium...
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    Anagotus fairburni or Flax weevil is a large flightless weevil. It feeds on leaves of New Zealand flax species where it produces a characteristic feeding...
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    New Zealand. Retrieved 28 June 2020. Hindmarsh, Gerard. "Flax – the enduring fibre". New Zealand Geographic. Retrieved 13 June 2020. Tregear, Edward (1891)...
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    the flax ladybird, is a species of ladybird beetle that is native to New Zealand, being found at least in the North Island. It can be found on New Zealand...
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    (Māori: Puhinui) is a town on the Northland Peninsula in the upper North Island of New Zealand. It is in the northern part of the Auckland Region, 64 km (40 mi)...
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    fibre of C. australis, which were much tougher than the fibres of New Zealand flax. The leaves were also used for rain capes, although the mountain cabbage...
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    "The Bluff", is a town and seaport in the Southland region, on the southern coast of the South Island of New Zealand serving as the main port of Invercargill...
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    military force, anticipating that large profits could be made from New Zealand flax, kauri timber, whaling, and sealing. Undeterred by the lack of government...
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  • (1877–1945) was a notable New Zealand flax-miller and promoter, farm developer. He was born in Loburn North, North Canterbury, New Zealand in 1877. Malone, Judy...
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    about forty species of flowering plants in the monocot family Asphodelaceae, commonly known as flax lilies. Plants in this genus are tufted herbs with more...
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