With the commercial production of unidirectionally (UD) reinforced flax fiber prepregs, an opportunity to design composite lay-ups tailored for specific applications has arisen. For that, mechanical characteristics of a UD composite need to be known. With this aim, plain and notched UD flax/epoxy composites have been tested in on-and off-axis tension. Stiffness, strength and intralaminar toughness characteristics of the composite have been estimated using the test results.