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  • COMMON NAME: Coriander
  • ARABIC: الكزبرة
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Coriandrum sativum L.
  • SYNONYMS: Selinum coriandrum E.H.L.Krause
  • FAMILY: APIACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Fruits (F) Apiculture (A)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production. common spice plant in Fujairah.
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:840760-1/general-information#vernacular-names V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007.
Honey nectar plants. used to flavor soups, stews, curries, salads etc. All parts of the plant are edible, but the fresh leaves and the dried seeds (as a spice) are the parts most traditionally used in cooking.
Plant with a sweet-musky smell, erect, 20–80 cm, rarely less, with few to many ascending branches from base upwards. Stems solid, ridged. Remaining leaves becoming gradually more dissected upwards, upper irregularly 2- rarely 3-pinnate with rather long, narrowly linear, usually divaricate 2–12 × 0.4–2 mm segments, ± sessile on small, white-margined sheath Lowest leaves broadly trilobed to pinnate with 1–4 pairs of broad but lobed and toothed pinnae, occasionally bipinnate. Peduncles 1–6 cm. Umbels few to many, with rather few, 3–6(–10) rays, rays 5–22 mm long Partial umbels 8–20-flowered, with an involucel of 3–5 linear-lanceolate bracteoles; radiate petals 4–5 mm. Fruiting pedicels 2–4 mm. Fruit 4–6 mm, appearing rugose when ripe through the strongly undulate primary ridges, mericarps firmly adherent. Styles slender and flexuose, 1.5–2 mm. Flowering from February-May.
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