The difference between Ramie and flax

I. difference between leaves

Ramie leaves alternate, herbaceous, oval or broadly ovate, rarely ovate, about 6 to 15 cm long and 4 to 11 cm wide, tip of leaves cuspidate, base nearly truncate or broadly cuneate, margin dentate above base, leaves slightly rough above, sparsely long with short hairs, dense snow-white felts below leaves.

Flax leaves alternate, leaves linear, linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, 2 to 4 cm long and 1 to 5 mm wide, apex acute, base gradually narrow, without petiole, leaves involute.

Second, the difference between flowers

Ramie panicle axillary, about 2 to 9 cm long, tepals of male flowers 4, narrowly elliptic, about 1.5 mm long.

Flax flowers are solitary at the top of the branch or in the axils of the upper leaves of the branch, forming an open cymose, 15 to 20 mm in diameter, 5 petals Obovate, blue or purplish blue in color, vaguely white or red.