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Flax

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Flax, also known as common flax or line, is a flowering plant cultivated as a food and fiber crop in temperate regions of the world. Textiles made from flax are known in English as linen and are traditionally used for bed sheets, underclothes and table linen, while the plant's seeds are known as flaxseed or linseed and its oil as linseed oil. The species is known only as a cultivated plant, appearing to have been domesticated just once from the wild species Linum bienne, called pale flax; the unrelated plants called flax in New Zealand belong instead to the genus Phormium.

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Earliest Documented Use, From (Year)
from -28,000 1
Wikipedia "Flax" Cultivation/History, citing Kvavadze et al. 2009 (Science): spun, dyed and knotted wild flax fibers found in Dzudzuana Cave, Georgia date to the Upper Paleolithic, 30,000 years ago (earliest known use, well before domestication in the Fertile Crescent).
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1. Flax (Wikipedia)
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