Author: xlhacoo

If there is one color to describe Huocheng in Xinjiang, purple is it. Huocheng is located at the same latitude with Provence, France, and its unique natural counter-temperate climate and water and fertilizer conditions make it an ideal geographic environment for large scale lavender planting. With 95% of the world’s lavender, along with Provence, France, Hokkaido, Japan and the Caucasus, Russia, it is one of the world’s four major lavender producing regions. The photographer Ke Li, who specializes in taking…

Lavender (Lavandula lavandula, Labiataceae) Lavender (Latin name: Lavandula angustifolia Mill.) is also known as perfume plant, spirit vanilla, vanilla, yellow vanilla, and lavender. It is a small shrub of the genus Lavandula in the Labiataceae family. Stems erect, stellate tomentose, old branches gray-brown, with striated exfoliating cortex. Leaves striped or lanceolate, with sparse or dense gray stellate tomentum, gray-white or olive-green when dry, entire and revolute. Verticillasters aggregated in interrupted or subcontinuous spikes at branch tips; bracts rhombic-ovate, bracteoles inconspicuous;…