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  • COMMON NAME: Florence fennel or finocchio.
  • ARABIC: شومر، حبت الحلوه، شبت
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Foeniculum vulgare Mill.
  • SYNONYMS: F. officinale
  • FAMILY: APIACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Landscape (L) Other Uses (O)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Gulley
  • TYPES: Biennial Perennial
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. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:842680-1 V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
ornamental plant. Cultivated as spice plant. It is a highly aromatic and flavorful herb used in cooking and, along with the similar-tasting anise, is one of the primary ingredients of absinthe.
Perennial or biennial herb, green-glaucous, 50-150 cm high. Stems erect, stout, striate, shiny. Leaves up to 40 cm long, ovate-triangular in outline, 3-4-pinnatisect, sheathing at base, 1-5 cm long, lobes of leaves linear-filiform, mucronate at apex. Umbels 6-20 rayed; rays unequal. Flowers tiny. Petals yellow. Fruit 4-8 mm long, 2-3 mm broad, ovoid-oblong, lateral ridges scarcely more prominent than dorsal. Flowering from March to September.
Wadi banks, among rocks on hillsides and plantations.
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