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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavandula
Lavandula
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lavandula (common name lavender) is a genus of 39 known species of flowering plants in the mint family,
Lamiaceae. It is native to the Old World and is found from Cape Verde and the Canary Islands, Europe across to
northern and eastern Africa, the Mediterranean, southwest Asia to southeast India. Many members of the genus
are cultivated extensively in temperate climates as ornamental plants for garden and landscape use, for use as
culinary herbs, and also commercially for the extraction of essential oils. The most widely cultivated species,
Lavandula angustifolia, is often referred to as lavender, and there is a colour named for the shade of the flowers
of this species.
Description
The genus includes annual or short-lived herbaceous perennial plants, and shrub-like perennials, subshrubs or
small shrubs.[2]
Leaf shape is diverse across the genus. They are simple in some commonly cultivated species; in others they are
pinnately toothed, or pinnate, sometimes multiple pinnate and dissected. In most species the leaves are covered
in fine hairs or indumentum, which normally contain the essential oils.[2]
Flowers are borne in whorls, held on spikes rising above the foliage, the spikes being branched in some species.
Some species produce coloured bracts at the apices. The flowers may be blue, violet or lilac in the wild species,
occasionally blackish purple or yellowish. The calyx is tubular. The corolla is also tubular, usually with five
lobes (the upper lip often cleft, and the lower lip has two clefts).[2][3]
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