LINEN

Unforgettable flax field during flowering. It appears blue-blue as the sea. The oncoming wind and rides the wave field, making the field even more like the sea. And it is from the blue flax flowers Len: revived classic or fashion disaster? . Len ordinary - an annual herbaceous plant with a thin, but at the end of branched stems 30-60 cm tall family of flax. Leaves sessile, small, lanceolate with three veins. Flowers regular quinary, petals corolla blue. Fruit box. Flax as a cultivated plant known since ancient times, is mentioned by the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. Culture flax was also widespread in ancient Russia. In the past, when there was no fiber u'lnyanogo competition from cotton and synthetic fibers like flax diluted throughout the textile plant. At present, the Soviet Union is the largest producer of flax in the world. Sometimes it found in flax crops as a weed near the fields, the meadows and slopes. Flowering flax from June to August. The flowers open with the first rays of the sun in 6-7 hours and the field turns blue in the morning sun, and close at 16-17 hours. In wet and rainy weather, the flowers of flax are not disclosed at all.

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