Apteegitill "Di Firenze" Foeniculum vulgare L.

A perennial herbaceous plant of the Umbelliferae family, 150-200 cm high. There are common fennel and vegetable or sweet fennel. The latter is grown to obtain a thickened part of the stem. Fennel is placed on fertile loamy soils, in open, sunny places. Propagated by seeds.

 

Eng.: Fennel, bitter fennel, common fennel, garden fennel. Suom.: Maustevenkoli, salaattifenkoli, saksankumina, venkoli. Sven.: Sötfänkål. Bot. syn.: Anethum foeniculum L., Foeniculum capillaceum , Foeniculum dulce Mill., Foeniculum foeniculum (L.), Foeniculum officinale All., Foeniculum panmoricum DC., Foeniculum piperitum (Ucria).