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Lavender (Latin name:. Lavandula angustifolia Mill), also known as the perfume of plants, spiritual herbs, vanilla, yellow herb, Lavender. Labiatae lavender genera A small shrub. Stems erect, stellate tomentose, old branches brown, with strips of skin peeling. Lanceolate leaf stripe or bar, is sparse or dense, or gray stellate tomentose, dry white or olive green, entire outer volume. Round inflorescence in the top branches gathered into intermittent or nearly continuous spikes; bracts diamond-shaped oval, small bracts obvious; calyx ovate-cylindrical or nearly cylindrical; corolla about twice as Cao, tube for straight in the throat by glandular hairs. Nutlets oval, smooth. Native to the Mediterranean, Europe and Oceania archipelago, was widely planted in the United Kingdom and Yugoslavia. Its leaf color beautiful and elegant, blue-purple inflorescence slender beauty, is in the courtyard of a new hardy perennial flowers, suitable for flower diameter clump planting or strip cropping, but also ornamental plants. Lavender is a kind of likes dry, need much water plants, annual rainfall at 600 ~ 800mm more suitable. Born lavender fields of France and the Mediterranean coast of southern Italy, the Alps area, as well as Spain, North Africa and other places. Lavender essential oil is mainly used in aromatherapy or massage areas. In the European tradition, the lavender seems natural associated with love.