Medicinal and aromatic plants – industrial profiles

L. canariensis
Mill. (
L. abrotanoides
Lam.; 
L. multifida 
L.
subsp. 
canariensis
(Mill.)) 
Pit. and Proust
(Figure 2.12)
Woody shrub 50–80 cm with glabrous stems. Leaves 4–7 cm, deeply dissected pinnatisect or
more often bipinnatisect. Inflorescence spike up to 10 cm, branched at base of main spike. Bract
lanceolate to ovate, acute, often with bluish tint, with five main nerves, slightly longer than
calyx in flowering state. Upper middle lobe of calyx distinctly broadly triangular in shape.
Corolla bicoloured, the lower lobes violet fading to blue-violet on the upper lobes with darker
guidelines. Canary Islands (Tenerife, Gomera, Gran Canaria, La Palma, El Hierro). Occasionally
cultivated as an ornamental.
The taxonomy of the genus 
Lavandula 
L.
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Figure 2.11 L.  multifida
– close up showing flower spike, Morocco near Oued Laou. (See Color 
Plate VI.)

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L. pinnata
L. f.
Shrub 30 (50) cm. Leaves 3–6 cm, deeply dissected pinnatisect, elliptic, each lobe distinctly 
obovate, pedicel to 1–1.5 cm. Whole plant with a characteristic grey felt of very short branching
hairs. Inflorescence spike compact up to 8 cm, branched at the base of the main spike. Bract
elliptic, apex acute, with five rather indistinct nerves, exceeding the calyx in length. Upper middle
tooth of calyx broadly triangular in shape. Corolla blue mauve. Canary Islands (Lanzarote) and
Madeira. Occasionally cultivated as an ornamental.
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