{"id":271,"date":"2016-09-01T23:31:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T06:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patrickbeechperrenials\/?p=271"},"modified":"2016-09-01T23:31:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T06:31:07","slug":"phormium-tenax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patrickbeechperrenials\/2016\/09\/01\/phormium-tenax\/","title":{"rendered":"Phormium tenax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Phormium tenax<\/i><br \/>\nNew Zealand flax<br \/>\nXanthorrhoeaceae<br \/>\nlist 12.19<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Herbaceous perennial<\/li>\n<li>Native to New Zealand<\/li>\n<li>FIbourous, strap-like leaves in an upright\u00a0 2-4 m tall clump<\/li>\n<li>Panicles of red flowers are borne on a 4-5 m stalk<\/li>\n<li>Used by Maori for fibres<\/li>\n<li>Needs sun, good drainage.<\/li>\n<li>Zone 9. Marginal in Vancouver. Can be used as an evergreen in favourable micro-climates in\u00a0 downtown and mild areas of Kits. Suitable as a bedding plant in other parts of Vancouver.<\/li>\n<li>Good large scale, architectural plant. Can help give structure to a space. Evokes a warmer, drier climate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-185\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patrickbeechperrenials\/files\/2016\/09\/12.19-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"12.19\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patrickbeechperrenials\/files\/2016\/09\/12.19-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patrickbeechperrenials\/files\/2016\/09\/12.19-768x490.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patrickbeechperrenials\/files\/2016\/09\/12.19-1024x654.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patrickbeechperrenials\/files\/2016\/09\/12.19-1140x728.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patrickbeechperrenials\/files\/2016\/09\/12.19-552x352.jpg 552w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patrickbeechperrenials\/files\/2016\/09\/12.19.jpg 1360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-108\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patrickbeechperrenials\/files\/2016\/09\/12.19.1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"12.19.1\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patrickbeechperrenials\/files\/2016\/09\/12.19.1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patrickbeechperrenials\/files\/2016\/09\/12.19.1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-109\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patrickbeechperrenials\/files\/2016\/09\/12.19.2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"12.19.2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patrickbeechperrenials\/files\/2016\/09\/12.19.2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patrickbeechperrenials\/files\/2016\/09\/12.19.2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">Phormium tenax New Zealand flax Xanthorrhoeaceae list 12.19 Herbaceous perennial Native to New Zealand FIbourous, strap-like leaves in an upright\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36386,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1667637],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architectural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patrickbeechperrenials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patrickbeechperrenials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patrickbeechperrenials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patrickbeechperrenials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patrickbeechperrenials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patrickbeechperrenials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patrickbeechperrenials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patrickbeechperrenials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patrickbeechperrenials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patrickbeechperrenials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}