Sweet Fennel

How to Grow Sweet Fennel
Perennial, Nigella Hispanica
While classified as a herb, Fennel is a popular European vegetable too. Native to Mediterranean region, the bulbous base and stalk is popular eaten raw like celery, cooked, or boiled.

Sweet fennel (Foeniculum vulgare var. dulce) is similar but is a hardy perennial that gets taller, growing to 6 ft (1.8 m), and doesn't develop the swollen leaf base bulb.

(Sweet Fennel) - F. vulgare Mill. 'Rubrum' (Bronze Fennel) - F. vulgare piperitum (Sweet Fennel) - F. vulgare var. azoricum (Anise) - F. vulgare var. azoricum 'Di Sarno' (Florence Fennel) - F. vulgare var. azoricum 'Orion' (Bulb Fennel) - F.

Sweet fennel, or finocchio, is a variety with a thick, bulb-based stalk eaten like celery. In literature and legend fennel is a symbol of flattery, a remedy for failing eyesight, and an aphrodisiac.

Fennel is much used recipes from Iran, Arabia and the Levant; it is also well estab­lished in Central Europe, chiefly to flavour rye breads, where the com­bination of sweet fennel and earthy bread is particularly delightful (see also blue fenugreek ...

Angelica hendersonii Pacific Angelica.
Foeniculum vulgare Sweet Fennel (whole plant). Native to the Mediterranean coastal areas, but widely naturalized in the U.S.
Foeniculum vulgare Sweet Fennel (flowers).

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Fonoll (catalán), Funcho (gallego y/o portugués), Hinojo (castellano), Hsiao-hui-hsiang (chino), Hui xiang (chino), Madhurika (sánscrito), Mieloi (vasco), Mirillu-belarr (vasco), Pammahur (hindi), Shih-lo (chino), Siao-hui (chino), Sweet fennel ...

See also: Fennel, Foeniculum vulgare, Parsley, Celery, Medic