On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 20:22:43 +0200, Henriette Kress
wrote:

Frogleg wrote:
Henriette Kress wrote:

Frogleg wrote:

will work (if they're not too old) to start your plants. As someone
else has posted, there are 2 small seeds inside each round pod.

Umm. No, those "pods" _are_ the seeds.
Two to each tiny ball; like all umbelliferae, coriander seeds, too, come
in pairs.

Umm, no. Coriander *is* in the Umbelliferae family because of its
umbrella-like flower/seed arrangement. So are parsley, carrot, celery,
and geranium. The round ball is the dried fruit of the plant, and
contains two seeds.

Heh. Both Pelargonium and Geranium are in the Geraniaceae.
Please show me an umbellifer that doesn't have paired seeds; there might
be lots, but I haven't seen one yet.

Carrot, parsley, dill, Pelargonium, celery and others.
The coriander ball is just two seeds, stuck together.


"Apiaceae (parsley family)."..."Ripe coriander fruits" (picture
caption)...
http://www-ang.kfunigraz.ac.at/~katz...?Cori_sat.html

"Coriander, an umbelliferous plant indigenous to southern
Europe"..."The fruit (so-called seeds) are of globular form, beaked,
finely ribbed, yellowish-brown 1/5 inch in diameter, with five
longitudinal ridges, separable into two halves (the mericarps), each
of which is concave internally and shows two broad, longitudinal oil
cells (vittae)."
http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/c/corian99.html

"Coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.) is an annual herb that belongs to
the carrot family (Umbelliferae)."..."The small white or pink flowers
are borne in compound umbels that measure approximately 1.6 in. (4 cm)
across. The fruits are nearly globular and consist of two,
single-seeded mericarp"

http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/agdex121?opendocument

"Technically, these are the fruits, not the seeds, of coriander"
(caption for a picture of coriander fruit/seed) Lovely pictures on
this page, BTW.
http://web.odu.edu/webroot/instr/sci...ages/coriander

"The fruit of the coriander plant contains two seeds "
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?t...dspice&dbid=70


Umbelliferae

n : plants having flowers in umbels: parsley; carrot; anise; caraway;
celery; dill
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Umbelliferae

Umbel

n: A flat-topped or rounded flower cluster in which the individual
flower stalks arise from about the same point, as in the geranium,
milkweed, onion, and chive.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Umbel