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Cilantro
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 |
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