One of the smallest and tidiest New Zealand flax cultivars, with narrow, upright, olive-green leaves that have a bronze edge. The leaves are sword-like, up to 30 centimetres long, with a smooth, leathery texture. The bronze edge is most pronounced in full sun, adding a subtle highlight to the green foliage. The plant forms a neat, compact, rounded clump that rarely needs pruning. The leaves radiate from the base, creating a tidy, mounding shape. The overall form is small and dense, perfect for planting in tight spaces where larger flax cultivars would be too big. Pepe Flax is extremely hardy, tolerating drought, wind, salt spray and frost. It is perfect for small gardens, rockeries, borders, mass plantings and containers. The compact size makes it ideal for planting in pots, where it can be moved to suit the garden design. The name Pepe means butterfly or small in Māori, referring to its dwarf size. The cultivar was selected for its dwarf, compact, tidy form. The parent species, Phormium tenax and Phormium cookianum, are large plants that can reach 2 metres or more. This cultivar brings the distinctive flax form into the small garden. To find Pepe Flax is to look in gardens and containers throughout New Zealand. It is a plant of cultivation, not of the wild. The small, tidy clump of olive-green leaves with bronze edges is a neat presence in the garden. It is a flax of the small space, a plant of the container, a pepe (butterfly) among the larger flax plants.