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Smyrnium olusatrum (Alexanders)

Synonyms: Smyrnium maritimum; Smyrnium vulgare

Wikipedia Abstract

Smyrnium olusatrum, common name Alexanders, is a cultivated flowering plant, belonging to the family Apiaceae (or Umbelliferae). It is also known as alisanders, horse parsley, and smyrnium. It was known to Theophrastus (9.1) and Pliny the Elder (N.H. 19.48).
View Wikipedia Record: Smyrnium olusatrum

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Biennial
Pollinators [1]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Scent [1]  The seeds are highly aromatic with a myrrh-like scent;
Structure [3]  Herb
Height [1]  3.936 feet (1.2 m)
Width [1]  28 inches (0.7 m)
Light Preference [2]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [2]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [2]  Rich
Soil Moisture [2]  Moist
View Plants For A Future Record : Smyrnium olusatrum

Protected Areas

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Erysiphe heraclei[5]
Peronospora crustosa[5]
Puccinia smyrnii[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0