Ammi majus

Large cartilage carrot

The Great cartilage carrot ( Ammi majus) is a species of the genus cartilage carrots ( Ammi ). Other names for the Great cartilage carrot are or were: Ammi, Ammeos, buntings, and Ammey.

Features

The Big Carrot is an annual cartilage stem Therophyt which reaches heights of growth from 30 to 100 centimeters. The lower leaves have oblong or lanceolate, serrated cartilaginous portions.

The cones are long stalks. The bracts are much shorter than the umbel rays and usually three to five pieces. The 15 to 30 ( to 60) umbel rays are projecting. The fruit is 1.5 to 2 millimeters in size, smooth, oblong or ovate. Your ribs are thin.

The flowering period is between June and September.

Occurrence

The Great cartilage carrot comes in the Mediterranean olive groves, cultivated fields, fallow land and waste places at altitudes from 0 to 1000 meters before.

Documents

  • Ralf Jahn, Peter Schoenfelder: Excursion Flora of Crete. With contributions by Alfred Mayer and Martin Scheuerer. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8001-3478-0, p 216
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