Flax is one of the oldest cultivated crops. Evidence suggests that people cultivated it in Babylon in approximately 3000 BCE. The seeds have traditionally been used in healing, and the fibres for producing fabric (i.e. linen) and rope. The flax plant, which grows to about a meter in height, is native to the region spanning the Mediterranean to India, but is now widely distributed all over the world. It can grow up to 1 meter in height.As a source...