Phormium
Phormium (family Agavaceae) A genus of plants that are rosettes with a woody rootstock. There are two species, confined to Norfolk Island and New Zealand. P. tenax, New Zealand flax, is commercially important and several variegated or oddly coloured varieties are grown as ornamentals.
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