Foeniculum vulgare

Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie
Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon

Bayer Code : foevu

Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Foeniculum offinale All.

Classification: Umbelliferae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: fennel

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Gemeiner Fenchel ; ES : hinojo común ; FR : fenouil commun ; IT : finocchio comune ; PT : funcho ; EN : fennel ;

Biological type: Perennial

Seed:

Seedling:

- Cotyledons very narrow and lengthened (up to 10 times longer than broad).

- Leaves pinnately divided.

Adult plant:

- Height: 90-200 cm. Plant glabrous with a smell of aniseed.

- Stem erect, very branched, blueish.

- Leaves deltoid, lengthened, 3-4 pinnatisect with very elongate segments, lower leaves stalked.

- Flowers yellow, small, circa 1 mm. Umbels large (15 cm in diameter), 4-25 rays. No involucre or involucel.

- Fruit : achene ovate and lengthened, brownish to yellowish-grey. Carpophore persistent on the inflorescence after falling of the fruit.

-Plant used as vegetable and condiment, and in medicine.

- Biological type: Perennial.

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