Spike lavender (Lavandula latifolia) is a shrub thirty to sixty centimetres tall of the Lamiaceae family, it grows in the wild at an altitude below seven hundred metres on the arid and sunny hills of southern France and the Mediterranean area.
It is the last of all the lavender species to bring its pale purple flowers to term.
Main aromatic molecules: Monoterpenols (linalool), terpene oxides (1,8-cineole or eucalyptol), ketones (camphor).
Family: Lamiaceae.
Producing organs: Flowering tops.
Yield: 500 to 800g of essential oil per 100kg of flowers.
Equivalence: 1ml → 29 drops (dosage calculated for a calibrated dropper European Pharmacopoeia).
