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Latin (Botanical) name: Foeniculum vulgare (L.) Mill. Ssp. Piperitum (Ucria) Coutinho.

Family: Umbelliferae, Apiaceae.

Common name: Fennel, Sweet fennel, Common fennel, Spingel, Fenouil commun, Fenouil des vignes, Shamar.

Origin: Egypt.

Plant description:

UMBELLIFERAE A. Juss.: Not spiny. Umbel-rays not woolly. Leafy herbs, root not globose. Bracteoles absent. Flowers yellow. Plant glabrous. Leaf-segments capillary. Fruit cylindrical. FOENICULUM Mill. Bracts and bracteoles absent. Flowers yellow. Fruit oblong cylindrical. FOENICULUM VULGARE (L.) Mill. Ssp. Piperitum (Ucria) Coutinho: Tall erect perennial. Leaves finely dissected into short filiform stiff-pointed lobes. Umbel 5-7-rayed. Perennial.

Source: STUDENTS’ FLORA OF EGYPT second edition, by VIVI TÄCKHOLM, D. Sc. (Stockholm) Professor of Systematic Botany, Faculty of Science, Cairo University. Published by Cairo University. Printed by COOPERATIVE PRINTING COMPANY Beirut, 1974.

Propagation: Fruits (seeds), perennial plant, cultivated, commercially annual in Upper Egypt.

Species List

Genus.

Botanical Family.

Product Photo. 

Alfalfa

Anise seed

Atrillal, Bishop's Weed

Basil

Beet

Caltrops, Tribulus

Celery

Chamomile, Matricaria

Clover, Egyptian

Coriander

Croton

Epazote

Fennel seed

Harmala, African rue

Hibiscus (Karkade)

Milk thistle

Nut grass

Plantain

Ploughmans spikenard

Saltbush

Thistle, Sonchus

Zilla

Zygophyllum

Chenopodiaceae.

Compositae.

Cruciferae.

Cyperaceae.

Euphorbiaceae.

Gramineae.

Labiatae.

Plantaginaceae.

Sterculiaceae.

Umbelliferae.

Zygophyllaceae.