The fennel-flower , like the Curry, can be at the same time spice only, Pimenta dioica , the Piment of Jamaica, also called alspice or all-spice for the fact that with crushing it develops scents of Gingembre, Girofle, Muscade and Poivre and mixes of the four above mentioned ones.

The fennel-flower commercial is generally a mixture where one can find, according to the receipts, up to seven ingredients of which, from time to time, irony of fate, of pepper of Jamaica.

Tropical tree, which one uses in kitchen the fruits desiccated and reduced out of powder. As their perfume evokes at the same time that of the ginger, nutmeg, the clove and pepper, one also wrongly baptizes “fennel-flower” a mixture of these spices.

See too

• Five spices