Sison amomum 

'Stone Parsley'

Apiaceae: an annual/biennial to 1m. Found in hedge banks and roadsides, usually on calcareous soils. The flowers are white, small (1-2mm), in umbels with 3-6 uneven rays. Blooming from July to September. Bracts linear, short. Fruit almost globose. An erect hairless plant with a nauseating smell when crushed. Stems solid, finely ridged. Leaves pinnate, with 5-9 pairs, oblong, toothed leaflets, often lobed. Native to Southern and western Europe from Britain and France to the Mediterranean, Western Asia and Algeria.

USES:

The roots can be cooked. It is said to taste like celery. The aromatic leaves and seed are used as a condiment.

The whole plant has carminative, diaphoretic, diuretic properties.

GROWING INFORMATION:

Surface sow seeds warm. Sow late spring or early autumn in situ. Grows best on well-drained neutral and alkaline soils. full fun to part-shade.

HARVESTED: 2020