Anethum

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The kind Anethum L. of the family of the Apiaceae, tribe of Peucedaneae counts only one largely widespread species in the world: odorous dill (Anethum graveolens).

Botanical description

  • dill is a herbaceous, annual plant (sometimes bi-annual) a height ranging between 50 and 150 cm and an extension from 30 to 40 cm.

  • the Tige S are set up and smooth.

  • Sheet S basal petiolate, sheaths marginally scarious. Deeply cut out limbs 2-3. Last fine and linear segments (quasi thread-like).

  • Inflorescence as ombelles cowards with branching stalks (many and unequal rays). Bractées nor of bractéoles.

    • Chalice 5-mother made up of tiny sepals.
    • Corolla made of 5 free petals of yellow color, ribbed the brown one. Very curved apex.
    • conical Stylopode. Styles short, initially drawn up, bending after flowering.
  • ellipsoidal or ovo-ellipsoidal Fruit brown striated with yellow, clearly flattened dorsalement. Thread-like dorsal coasts, in light projection. Side coasts in the shape of narrow aileron being reduced at each end. A vitta in each furrow, two by commissure. Carpophore bifide at the base.

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