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Bayer Code : aetcy

Scientific name: Aethusa cynapium L.


Synonym(s) of Sc. name:

Classification: Umbelliferae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: fool's parsley

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Hundspetersilie ; ES : perejil de perro ; FR : petite ciguë ; IT : cicuta aglina ; PT : cicuta-menor ; EN : fool's parsley ; NL : Hondspeterselie ; DK :

Biological type: Annual


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Seedling:

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- Cotyledons elliptical, with rounded tip, more or less petiolate

-Leaves divided, palmate.


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- height: 20-60 cm.

- Stem branched, striate, hollowed, erect.

- Lower leaves lighter, triangular in outline, pinnatifid. Cauline leaves alternate without petioles , with large leaf sheath, 2-3 times divided in ovate lanceolate segments.

- Flowers white and small, combined in 5-12 unequal ray umbels. Linear long, bracts of involucre (1-5),deflexed.

- Fruit: achenes 3-4 mm ovate, glabrous, slightly compressed, straw-yellow with brown-red stria. Persistent carpophore on the inflorescence after fruit fall.

- Plant produces faint smell on crushing similar to chevril.

Plant contains butyric and formic acid. Very toxic and narcotic plant.

- Biological type: annual.

Mistake with: Daucus carota , Bifora radians


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