Linum usitatissimum
Nota de aplicación
Species of herbaceous annual, native to the area of the eastern Mediterranean and India; probably first cultivated in the Fertile Crescent. The plant grows to 4 m in height, bears blue flowers succeeded by pods that contain the seeds. It is cultivated both for its fiber, from which linen yarn and fabric are made, and for its seed, the source of linseed oil, which is an edible oil used as a nutritional supplement and as an ingredient in painting a…