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2011
Anethum graveolens - Dill
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Scientific name - Anethum graveolens L.

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Popular names - dill, Aneto puzzolente, Aneto, Dill, Eneldo, Aneth odorant.

Distribution and Habitat - a species native to Southeast Asia, grows on fields in the Mediterranean, and cultivated almost all over the globe.

Description - herbaceous annual, glabra, green, glauca, with a characteristic odor, root systems, thin, whitish. Stems erect, 130 cm tall, cylindrical, finely ribbed, narrow stripes, white, fistula, branched at the top. Leaves 3-4 pinnate sectors, ovate, ribbed lower the fistula, the upper sessile, with vaginas canaliculata, linear filiform, elongated and terminated with a short mucron. Umbel inflorescence, 16 cm diameter, with 30-50 branches, more or less equal glabrata and smooth. Flowers small, hermaphrodite, with pedicel glabrata and smooth, morelonger than flowers. Calyx missing. Corolla with yellow petals, slightly emarginate. Blooms in June-August. Fruit flattened, oval or flat oval, 2.5 - 5 mm x 1.5 - 3.5 mm, yellow brunii, main ribs evident, whitish.

Properties and Uses - are grown for leaves, stems and fruit aromatic, used as a spice in the kitchen and the preparation of pickles.

Curiosity - fruits contain fatty oils, protein substances and essential oils.

In folk medicine used as tonic and insomnia.

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