Ridolfia segetum

Ridolfia segetum

Ridolfia segetum, also arable fennel, "false fennel " or called " Gold Spray", the only species of the genus Ridolfia within the Umbelliferae family is ( Apiaceae ). It is widespread in the Mediterranean.

• 4.1 Notes and references

Description

Ridolfia segetum grows as annual herbaceous plant growth and reaches heights of up to 100 centimeters. Your taproot gives off a fennel -like odor. Your upright, branched, light green stem is hairless. The hairy green foliage leaf is repeatedly pinnate with very fine, thread-like leaf sections.

The flowers are borne in an umbel. The umbel is 10 - to 60 -beam. A sheath is not formed. The flowers are yellow.

The brownish or pale yellow achene is at a length of 1.5 to 2.5 mm oblong to ovate. The yellow seeds are ovate at a length of 2 to 4 millimeters. The two green, bare seed leaves ( cotyledons ) have a length of 28 millimeters.

Ingredients

The seeds and leaves contain an essential oil, which gives a strong fennel -like fragrance of the plant.

Taxonomy

The first publication of this kind took place in 1771 under the name Anethum segetum by Carl Linnaeus in Mantissa Plantarum, p 219 1841 presented Giuseppe Giacinto Moris in Enumeratio seminum Horti Regii Botanici Taurinensis, 43 the genus with the type species Ridolfia Ridolfia segetum on; they were published in Flora Sardoa ... Taurini, 2, 1842, p 212, Plate 75

Use

In Sicily Ridolfia segetum is used raw in salads.

Swell

• Rhine Media: arable fennel, weeds determination.
• Hyppa: Short Characteristics.