Flax in New Zealand
（重定向自New Zealand Flax）
![Hone Heke (centre) wearing a short checked flax and feather cloak and flax skirt. His uncle Kawiti is on the right in a flax cloak.](/Images/godic/202501/29/HekeKawiti18462057.jpg")
![New Zealand flax (harakeke in Māori)](/Images/godic/202501/29/Phormium_tenax_-_wetland_52057.jpg")
![1902 cut flax being floated downstream to the mill at Waimauku AWNS-19021009-2-4](/Images/godic/202501/29/Cut_flax_being_floated_downstream_-_supplement_to_the_Auckland_Weekly_News_9_October_1902_p22057.jpg")
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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 respectively. Although given the common name 'flax' they are quite distinct from the Northern Hemisphere plant known as flax (Linum usitatissimum)