Pastinaca

Parsnip ( Pastinaca sativa)

The parsnips ( Pastinaca ) constitute a genus in the family of Umbelliferae ( Apiaceae ) with 14 species. It is widespread in Europe and western Asia. The most important farmed and at the same time the only occurring in Central Europe is kind of parsnip, also called the parsnip, ( Pastinaca sativa).

Description

The Pastinaca species is a biennial herbaceous plant with a long - conical, turnip -shaped thickened in culture clans main root. The stem is ribbed and hollow. The leaves are usually simply pinnate and bare. The leaflets are sessile and sawn or pinnatisect.

Many flowers are borne in terminal and lateral, ascending doldigen rayed inflorescences. Cases ( involucre ) and Hüllchen ( Involucellum ) are missing. The calyx teeth are tiny and triangular. The petals are ovate, yellow and curved at the tip inward. The fruit falls apart when ripe, as with all umbellifers into two fruits.

System

The genus includes 14 species of parsnip (selection):

• Pastinaca armena fish. & C. A. Mey.
• Pastinaca clausii Calest.
• Pastinaca hirsuta Pančić, occurs only in Bulgaria and the former Yugoslavia
• Pastinaca latifolia ( Duby ) DC. , Is found only in Corsica
• Pastinaca lucida L., occurs only in the Balearic Islands
• Pastinaca pimpinellifolia Griseb.
• Parsnip or parsnip ( Pastinaca sativa L.), with several subspecies
• Pastinaca umbrosa Steven

Pictures

Parsnip ( Pastinaca sativa)

Documents

• Pan Zehui & Mark F. Watson: in Flora of China, Volume 14, p 193: Pastinaca - Online.
• Thomas Gaskell Tutin: Pastinaca L. In: TG Tutin, among other things: Flora Europaea. Volume 2, p 364 Cambridge University Press 1968.