Persil

Description:

Parsley is a biennial plant from 25 to 80 cm high, very aromatic when crushed, with characteristic odor. The stems are serrated and the leaves are hairless. The leaves are shiny green, are doubly divided, especially those of the base, upper leaves often having only three lobes narrow and elongated. The flowers of a greenish yellow verging on white in full bloom, are clustered in compound umbels containing eight to twenty rays. The umbels are equipped with a invulcelle to many bracts. Root elongated-type swivel is well developed. It is yellowish, offensive and aromatic. Flat leaf parsley can be confused with the small hemlock (Aethusa cynapium), toxic plant of the same family. The little hemlock is very similar to parsley leaves, but differs by traces reddish at the base of the stems and smell unpleasant.

Habitat:

Wild plant in southwestern Asia, North Africa and Macaronesia, widely cultivated in all parts of the world. One can find an escape from cultivation or naturalized here and there in all five continents.

Notes:

It's use in cooking.