The difference between blue flax and flax flowers

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1. Differences in leaves

2. The difference between flowers

Leaf differences: Blue flax leaves are alternate, narrow or strip-lanceolate, with the entire edge rolled in; flax leaves are oblanceolate, with the stem 1.5 to 15 cm long. Flower differences: blue flax cymes, flowers are blue; flax flowers are umbels, with 3 to 10 flowers, and the petals are strip-shaped and oblanceolate.

1. Differences in leaves

Blue flax leaves are thin and numerous, arranged in a linear spiral shape. The leaves are alternate. The leaves are narrow or strip-lanceolate, about 8 to 25 mm long and wide. About 3 to 8 mm, the entire leaf is involute, with a sharp apex and a gradually narrowing base.

The leaves of flax flower are inverted Lanceolate, 1.5 to 11 cm long with handle and 6 to 13 mm wide.

2. Flower Differences< /h2>

There are many blue flax flowers, forming cymes. The flowers are blue, blue-purple, and light blue. The diameter of the flowers is about 2 cm. The pedicels are slender, about 1 to 2.5 cm long, upright or sideways. One side is curved, the petals are usually 5, obovate, 1 to 1.8 cm long, the top is rounded, and the base is wedge-shaped.

Flax flowers are umbrella-shaped The inflorescence has 3 to 10 flowers, the pedicel is 2 to 11 mm long, and the petals are strip-shaped and oblanceolate, about 6 to 13 mm long and 2 to 3 mm wide.

2. The difference between flowers

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