Flax

Common flax (also known as linseed) is a member of the Linaceae family, which includes about 150 plant species widely distributed around the world. Some of them are grown in domestic flower beds, as flax is one of the few truly blue flowers. (Most "blue" flowers are really a shade of purple.)

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Under the dwindling Cronquist system of classifying the flowering plants, flax and related plants were placed in an order Linales. Modern classifications place them in the order Malpighiales. Flax is a Natural Fiber that belongs to the Bast Fiber category among the Vegetable Fiber group. It is extracted from the Bast or skin of the stem of Flax Plant. Other Bast Fibers are: Jute, Kenaf, Industrial hemp, Ramie, Mesta, Bimlipatam Jute, etc.

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Linaceae: AnisadeniaCliococcaHesperolinonLinumRadiolaReinwardtiaSclerolinonTirpitziaThe Linaceae are herbaceous or rarely woody plants, large trees in the tropics. The simple entire leaves are almost always alternate, sometimes with stipules. The hermaphroditic, actinimorphic flowers are pentameric, or very r...

Plant: Land plants (embryophytes)Non-vascular plants (bryophytes)Hepaticophyta - liverwortsAnthocerotophyta - hornwortsBryophyta - mossesVascular plants (tracheophytes)Lycopodiophyta - clubmossesEquisetophyta - horsetailsPteridophyta - "true" fernsPsilotophyta - whisk fernsOphioglossophyta - adderstonguesS...

Species: In biology, the most commonly used definition of species was first coined by Ernst Mayr. Species are "groups of actually or potentially interbreeding natural populations which are reproductively isolated from other such groups" (however, see other definitions of species below)....

Flax related Images and Photos (experimental)

Flax Field Provence	Flax Scutching Bee	Ordinary Flax Weed	Field of Blue Flax
The Common Method of Beetling Scutching and Hackling the Flax