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Everything You Wanted to Know About Lavender

From:

Comparative Evaluation of the Essential Oil of the New Ukrainian Lavandula angustifolia and Lavandula x intermedia Cultivars Grown on the Same Plots

Authors:

Katarzyna Pokajewicz 1,* , Marietta Białon´ 1 , Liudmyla Svydenko 2, Nataliia Hudz 3,4 , Radosław Balwierz 4 , Dominik Marciniak 5 and Piotr Paweł Wieczorek 1


  • Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Opole, 45-052 Opole, Poland; marietta.bialon@uni.opole.pl (M.B.); pwiecz@uni.opole.pl (P.P.W.)

  • Sector of Mobilization and Conservation of Plant Resources, Rice Institute, National Academy of Agrarian Sciences, 74992 Kherson, Ukraine; svid65@ukr.net

  • Department of Drug Technology and Biopharmaceutics, Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, 79010 Lviv, Ukraine; natali_gudz@ukr.net

  • Department of Pharmacy and Ecological Chemistry, University of Opole, 45-052 Opole, Poland; radoslaw.balwierz@uni.opole.pl

  • Department of Drug Forms Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Wrocław Medical University, 50-556 Wroclaw, Poland; dominik.marciniak@umw.edu.pl



The genus Lavandula belongs to the family Lamiaceae and contains 39 species and

eight hybrids. The common name lavender is usually applied to several species of Lavandula generally used for their aromatic quality. We can distinguish such species as L angustifolia, L. latifolia, L. dentata, L. stoechas, and L. x intermedia. The main species used for distilling essential oil are L. angustifolia, L. latifolia, and L. x intermedia, which is an interspecies hybrid of the first two species.

* L. angustifolia (LA) Miller is also referred to as true lavender or English lavender that

is used for producing the most valuable essential oil known as true lavender oil or just lavender oil.

** L. latifolia (LL) Medikus is also known as spike lavender, cultivated mostly in Spain,

and used as the raw material for obtaining spike oil.

*** L. x intermedia (LI) Emeric ex Loiseleur, also known as lavandin, Dutch lavender, and Lavandula hybrida, is a sterile hybrid between spike and English lavender. It is a much larger plant than L. angustifolia and is much appreciated for its high yield of essential oil.

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