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Foeniculum vulgare
English: Fennel
Spanish: Hinojo
Estonian: Apteegitill
It is a hardy, perennial herb with yellow flowers
and feathery leaves. It is indigenous to the shores
of the Mediterranean but has become widely
naturalized in many parts of the world, especially
on dry soils near the sea-coast and on riverbanks.
It is a highly aromatic and flavorful herb .
Fennel is used as a food plant by the larvae of some
Lepidoptera species.
Flowers
Leaves
Fruit
The fruit is a dry seed from
The flowers are The leaves grow up to 40 4–10 mm long.
produced in terminal cm long; they are finely compound umbels 5–15 dissected, with the Fennel is widely cultivated,
cm wide, each umbel ultimate segments
filiform , about 0.5 mm
wide.
section having 20–50
tiny yellow flowers on
short pedicels.
both in its native range and
elsewhere, for its edible,
strongly flavored leaves and
fruits.