ribbonwood

Noun

• small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage

• deciduous New Zealand tree whose inner bark yields a strong fiber that resembles flax and is called New Zealand cotton

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  lacebark , houhere , Hoheria populnea , ribbon tree , Plagianthus regius , Plagianthus betulinus