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Dieren en planten

Flax family   Fairy flax   Allseed   White flowers   

Water en land

Mens en Milieu

Dwergvlas en geelhartje, Ecomare, Sytske Dijksen

Flax family

Flax has been cultivated for thousands of years for making rope and extracting oil. It is hard work to process the plant and therefore rarely used now any more. What’s more, the two wild species that grow in the Netherlands would take forever to produce rope or oil; both only grow a few centimeters high.