- English lavender (Lavandula Angustifolia)
- French (Spanish) Lavender (Lavandula stoechas)
- Portuguese Lavender (Lavandula latifolia)
- Lavandin (Lavandula x intermedia)

Main Lavandula types

The term Lavender is derived from the Latin word “lavare,” which means “to wash.”  Romans used lavender for their personal items such as beds, clothes and soaps, and even in their hair.

Nomenclature of Lavender

Essential oils (EOs) are very fascinating natural plant products and have different biological properties. “Biological” includes all activities that these mixtures of volatile compounds (mainly mono- and sesquiterpenoids, benzenoids, phenylpropanoids,
etc.) exert on humans, animals, and other plants.

Essential Oils (EOs)

Lavandula or commonly known as lavender is cultivated broadly in temperate climates. Lavander is used as:
 - Ornamental plants for garden and landscape
 - Culinary herbs 
- Extraction of essential oils.
- Traditional medicine and cosmetics

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- Lavandula
- Siphocranion
- Isodon
- Hanceola
- Hyptis
- Orthosiphon
- Ocimum
- Plectranthus
- Coleus 

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