Carex secta Pukio (Cyperaceae)

Found throughout New Zealand along stream banks, swamps and other damp places comes this large Sedge, which is at the same time both handsome and extraordinary. With long, graceful, very narrow, weeping, yellowish-green leaves up to six feet in length; it forms large tussocks bearing three-foot flower panicles in summer. Also, in a strange, unique manner, the matted roots and decaying leaves combine eventually to produce huge, broad, conspicuous pillars that, over time, could reach over 1.5m in height and bodily lift the plant above its original home.
Ht. 1.6m. (plus pillar!) Very hardy


Price
  9cm pot       £2.50       Available Sept 2004