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Foeniculum vulgare
Foeniculum vulgare
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Dr. Maulik Gadani
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Botanical Name :
Foeniculum vulgare
Mill.
Synonyms :
Foeniculum officinale
All.
Common Name :
Fennel, Variyali, Sweet Fennel, Florence Fennel, Saunf
Plant Family :
Apiaceae (Umbelliferae)
Plant Form :
Herb
Occurrence (Sectors) :
27
About Foeniculum vulgare Plant :
Habit :
A small annual herb.
Leaves :
Pinnately decompound, finely dissected, ultimate segments linear or filiform, petiolate, petioles broad and amplexicaul.
Inflorescence :
Compound umbels.
Flowers :
Yellow-coloured, on short stalks, bracteate, bracts very small.
Calyx teeth 0, petals 5, broad, emarginate.
Stamens 5, epigynous, ovary inferior, crowned by a disk.
Fruit :
A cremocarp, oblong, carpophore 2-partite, mericarps, half-terete, ribbed and flattened.
Flowering and Fruiting Time :
August - September
Significance :
Cultivated everywhere for its fruits, which are used as a condiment and purgative.