PHORMIUM TENAX 'APRICOT QUEEN'
Common Name: New Zealand Flax
Family: Agavaceae/Phormiaceae
Phormium tenax 'Apricot Queen' is a colourful variety of New Zealand Flax. An evergreen clump-forming plant, it has leathery, spiky leaves, of a lovely peachy-pink colour, with deeper peach stripes. It grows to around 1m in height. Not as hardy as the plain green Phormium, it needs protection in very cold weather. It is invaluable in flower arranging for linear foliage to give height to an arrangement, and will add colour in an all-foliage arrangement. |
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