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Lavandula angustifolia Mill.

Lavandula angustifolia Mill., fine lavender, grows at altitude on limestone in Haute-Provence. Its flowering stems are cut above the leaves, left to wilt, and steam-distilled for the essential oil.

The French heritage record puts it in the family Lamiaceae, gives it 600 to 1700 m in the wild, and has it cultivated above 800 m inside the AOC area created in 1981. Lavandin, its hybrid with spike lavender, is on record beside it.

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fragrance material

Lavender sprigs, dried and tied

A tied bunch of dried lavender sprigs, the house’s own model. Modelled in-house (procedural, in Blender); its size is typical of the material, not a measurement; not a photograph or a scan.

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Seven sprigs of dried lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) tied with jute: the flowering stems, cut above the leaves, with the whorls of small calyces along the head - the part distilled for lavender oil, fresh. Dried lavender is a dull grey-violet. Modelled in-house from the sprigs on the Materials page’s specimen shelf.

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about 20 cm long, 8 cm wide, 1 cm high. Modelled, not measured: a typical size
Source
HombreOils, in-house: modelled, textured and baked in Blender from the forms of the specimen shelf on the Materials page
Licence
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Model
13,986 triangles (simplified from 16,128)

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Latin name
Lavandula angustifolia Mill.
documented · 2018

La lavande fine (Lavandula angustifolia Mill.) pousse à une altitude comprise entre 600 et 1700 m d’altitude sur un sol calcaire.

HV-4 · Rosati-Marzetti C, anthropologist: “Les pratiques de culture des lavandes dans les Alpes-de-Haute-Provence”, Fiche… · read 2026-09-30

confidence A

Common name
fine lavender (lavande fine)
documented · 2018

La lavande fine (Lavandula angustifolia Mill.) pousse à une altitude comprise entre 600 et 1700 m d’altitude sur un sol calcaire.

HV-4 · Rosati-Marzetti C, anthropologist: “Les pratiques de culture des lavandes dans les Alpes-de-Haute-Provence”, Fiche… · read 2026-09-30

confidence A

Family
Lamiaceae (lamiacées)
documented · 2018

Poussent sous un climat méditerranéen sur un milieu dégradé et sur l’adret (face sud), les lavandes sont issues de la famille botanique des lamiacées (comme la sauge, le thym, la sarriette, l’origan, la menthe et l’hysope).

HV-4 · Rosati-Marzetti C, anthropologist: “Les pratiques de culture des lavandes dans les Alpes-de-Haute-Provence”, Fiche… · read 2026-09-30

the fiche says it of “les lavandes”, the genus as it treats it

confidence A

Part used
the flowering stems, cut above the leaves
documented · 2018

Les tiges fleuries sont déversées au pied des cuves de distillation (ill. 4) pour y être enfournées à l’aide de fourches.

HV-4 · Rosati-Marzetti C, anthropologist: “Les pratiques de culture des lavandes dans les Alpes-de-Haute-Provence”, Fiche… · read 2026-09-30

and the cutting: “Les cisailles coupent la plante au ras des tiges, avant les feuilles” (HV-4)

confidence A

Cultivars
not on record
not on record

no cultivar is named in the filed sentences

Wikidata
Q42081
documented

P225 taxon name: Lavandula angustifolia

WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation) · read 2026-09-30

the item’s taxon name (P225) is “Lavandula angustifolia”, the record’s botanical name without its author

confidence A

Origins on record
  • Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
    documented

    nothing on record supports a value; none is invented

    confidence A

  • Grasse
    inferred

    the sentence says « la lavande », which the fiche uses generically (p. 2); which lavender grows at Grasse is not stated

    confidence C

Materials

Films and plates

  • SPEC-3 · lavender: the /materials specimen still · still
  • OR-3 · lavender: the origin film (the field to the bench) · queued: the master queue lists OR-3 as queued (the render queue’s list, read 2026-09-30); no path until it is rendered and published
    the ground texture (a render input only): "Gravelly Sand", Dario Barresi (Poly Haven), CC0 1.0

Sources

  1. HV-4 · Rosati-Marzetti C. (anthropologist), “Les pratiques de culture des lavandes dans les Alpes-de-Haute-Provence”, Fiche d’inventaire du patrimoine culturel immatériel, Ministère de la Culture (France), fiche no. 2018_67717_INV_PCI_FRANCE_00418, ARK ark:/67717/nvhdhrrvswvk2ml, submitted 12 December 2018 (fieldwork February–August 2018). www.culture.gouv.fr/Media/Thematiques/Patrimoine… · read 2026-09-30 · Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0 (the site’s default: “sauf mention contraire”)
  2. WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation): the items named on each record (each statement read with its references), read 2026-09-30. www.wikidata.org · read 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0

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this record as data: /data/botanical/lavandula-angustifolia.json · version 3 · updated 2026-10-01 · confidence A