Description

Lavandula stoechas, commonly called Lavender or thyme cotton, is a shrub ramoso, very aromatic, of up to a meter in height of the Lamiaceae family. It is a species native to the Mediterranean region and Macaronesia and naturalized in Australasia.

It forms a highly branched plant that can reach 1 m in height. Its stems are green or reddish, whitish by the presence of hairs, more or less abundant. Somewhat greyish above all on the underside, tomentose leaves, are born facing each other, are long and narrow, entire edge. Compact inflorescence, of quadrangular section. The flowers are crowded together in dense spikes terminals of quadrangular shape, carrying a set of sterile violet or reddish bracts at its completion. The calyx, small and tour of 13 you veins, is hidden by the bract. Deep Purple Corolla. The flowers are vertical lines that run through the whole of the inflorescence. Esporofilos of 4-8 mm long, membranous, tomentosos, acorazonados-romboidales, brownish violet grey in 4 rows, the upper enlarged, without axillary flowers, 1-5 cm long, oval, purple to bluish violet. Colored tuft serves to attract insects.

It blooms in spring and early summer, starting from the month of March, according to the climate where dwell.

Properties

Antiasthmatic, Antispasmodic, antiseptic, Digestive Y Expectorant

germinación

It germinates very easy. It is not necessary to pre-germinativo treatment. Directly on the substrate, without burying seeds too, only you must press them lightly in the substrate. Eucalyptus seeds need light to germinate, but not Sun direct, should move away from the Sun until they germinate, can take 3 to 4 weeks to germinate.

Temperature 15 ° C - 25 ° C

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