#lavender

• Abutilon vitifolium — The synonymous scientific designation for *Corynabutilon vitifolium*, a species of large shrub or small tree in the Malvaceae family, native to the temperate rainforests of Chile. This unique plant is widely cultivated globally in botanical and landscape gardens due to its large, soft-haired, palmate-lobed leaves that resemble vine leaves, and for its spectacular, wide-open, cup-shaped flowers colored in delicate shades of pale blue, lavender, or golden-white.
• Aromatherapy — A branch of alternative medicine and phytotherapy that utilizes volatile essential oils concentrated and extracted from aromatic plants, flowers, or roots to improve physical, mental, and emotional well-being, primarily through inhalation or topical massage.
• Aspic — A cold culinary dish consisting of a savory, transparent gelatinous mass obtained by prolonged boiling of meat, bones, and cartilages (jelly, răcituri) or by adding gelatin, used to encase and decorate pieces of meat, fish, vegetables, or eggs; in a zoological sense, it represents a highly venomous viper of Southern Europe (Vipera aspis), and in botany, it denotes a species of lavender (Lavandula latifolia) from which a harsh aromatic oil is extracted.
• Narrow-leaved — A taxonomic term borrowed from scientific Latin, used as a specific epithet in binominal plant nomenclature to indicate that the species possesses narrow, elongated, or lanceolate leaves. The most famous structural example is 'Lavandula angustifolia'.