Sights of Valencia

02/08/2024

02/08/2024

Flax has long been used as a spinning and oilseed crop. Flax is not mowed, but pulled out by the roots - teasing. Previously, this work was done by hand, but now there are special machines for this. Flax stalks are tied into sheaves, dried and threshed to separate the seeds. At the oil plant, oil is pressed out of them, which is suitable for food, but most often it is used to make drying oil (bases for varnishes and paints), as well as to make soap. Flaxseeds are also used as medicine.

02/08/2024

Seeds (1.1-1.4) 2-5 mm long, (0.7) 1-3 mm wide, obovate or ellipsoidal, elliptical in cross-section in most species, rarely round-triangular. The color of the seeds is predominantly dark brown, sometimes light brown (in the cultivated species Linum usitatissimum, the seeds can also be yellow, olive, green, with a reddish or blackish tinge).

02/06/2024

5 The fruit is a septic capsule (1.8) 2-7 (8) mm long, (1.8) 2-7 (8) mm wide, spherical, flattened-spherical, spherical-ovoid or ovoid, opening in 10 one-seeded segments, rarely unopened or almost unopened. Boxes on a transverse section are rounded, less often 10-sided or 5-sided; divided by partitions into 5 nests, each of which contains 2 seeds, in turn, separated from each other by false partitions

02/04/2024

Flowers 5-membered, bisexual, actinomorphic, heterostyly and entomophilous, or homostyly and self-pollinating; collected in cymose inflorescences. Sepals free, entire, imbricate, with stalked glandules along the edges, ciliate or white-membranous without glandules and cilia. Petals are free, with a nail (sometimes connected into a short tube), longer than the sepals, of various colors (blue, blue, yellow, less often pink, purple, red or white)

02/02/2024

02/02/2024

Perennial, rarely juvenile and annual herbs or shrubs. Leaves sessile, alternate, rarely opposite or lower whorled; linear in shape, lanceolate, linear-lanceolate, obovate, oblong, narrowly elliptical or spatulate, entire or finely serrated, glabrous or pubescent, with 1 or 3-5 parallel, varying degrees of pronounced veins; sometimes with 2 brownish stipular glands at the base of the leaves

01/31/2024

Flax (lat. Línum) is a genus of herbaceous plants of the Flax family (Linaceae). There are about 200 species [2]. Common flax is a valuable spinning and oilseed crop.

01/31/2024

1 Flax (lat. Línum) is a genus of herbaceous plants of the Flax family (Linaceae). There are about 200 species [2]. Common flax is a valuable spinning and oilseed crop.