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fennel or dill
Could anyone let me know how to tell the difference between a dill and
fennel plant. I think I have one in the garden with feathery leaves and is about 6 feet tall. I checked some books in the library for both plants' ID but I still can't tell the difference. Please advise. Thanks in advance. |
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yue wrote: Could anyone let me know how to tell the difference between a dill and fennel plant. I think I have one in the garden with feathery leaves and is about 6 feet tall. I checked some books in the library for both plants' ID but I still can't tell the difference. Please advise. Someone else will probably be able to give you a better answer, but... what does it smell like? Break some off and crush it a bit. If it smells like dill pickles, it's dill. If it smells like licorice/anise, it's fennel. -- Jennifer |
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"Jennifer" wrote in message
oups.com... yue wrote: Could anyone let me know how to tell the difference between a dill and fennel plant. I think I have one in the garden with feathery leaves and is about 6 feet tall. I checked some books in the library for both plants' ID but I still can't tell the difference. Please advise. Someone else will probably be able to give you a better answer, but... what does it smell like? Break some off and crush it a bit. If it smells like dill pickles, it's dill. If it smells like licorice/anise, it's fennel. -- Jennifer Jennifer, what a great and very common sense answer!!! Suzy O |
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Jennifer Wrote: yue wrote: what does it smell like? Break some off and crush it a bit. If it smells like dill pickles, it's dill. If it smells like licorice/anise, it's fennel. -- Jennifer good answer Jennifer :O) Would you repeat that please? -- Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington USDA Zone 8 Sunset Zone 5 |
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On 30 Aug 2005 14:47:21 -0700, "yue" wrote:
Could anyone let me know how to tell the difference between a dill and fennel plant. I think I have one in the garden with feathery leaves and is about 6 feet tall. I checked some books in the library for both plants' ID but I still can't tell the difference. Please advise. Thanks in advance. Crush a bit in your hand. If it smells like licorish, then it's fenel. If it smells like dill, then it's dill. so often fennel is sold as dill at nurseries. I don't know why. |
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"yue" wrote in message oups.com... Could anyone let me know how to tell the difference between a dill and fennel plant. I think I have one in the garden with feathery leaves and is about 6 feet tall. I checked some books in the library for both plants' ID but I still can't tell the difference. Please advise. Thanks in advance. As others have said they do smell quite different. Also fennel has a much bigger fatter stem, particularly at the base, the base of fennel can be eaten as a vegetable, which is not so likely with dill. David |
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"yue" wrote in message oups.com... Could anyone let me know how to tell the difference between a dill and fennel plant. I think I have one in the garden with feathery leaves and is about 6 feet tall. I checked some books in the library for both plants' ID but I still can't tell the difference. Please advise. Thanks in advance. Good advice from everyone. But, if it smells like neither of those things, wash your hands thoroughly with DISH LIQUID, rinse off the outside of the bottle, and come back here and tell us. I had poison hemlock (the real deal) in my yard back in the spring. It looked very much like fennel. I mention this because although I certainly haven't seen everything the world has to offer, I haven't seen 6 foot high fennel. Dill, yes. Fennel, no. |
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On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:17:05 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote: "yue" wrote in message roups.com... Could anyone let me know how to tell the difference between a dill and fennel plant. I think I have one in the garden with feathery leaves and is about 6 feet tall. I checked some books in the library for both plants' ID but I still can't tell the difference. Please advise. Thanks in advance. Good advice from everyone. But, if it smells like neither of those things, wash your hands thoroughly with DISH LIQUID, rinse off the outside of the bottle, and come back here and tell us. I had poison hemlock (the real deal) in my yard back in the spring. It looked very much like fennel. I mention this because although I certainly haven't seen everything the world has to offer, I haven't seen 6 foot high fennel. Dill, yes. Fennel, no. 6 foot high bronze fennel sure, I got it, caterpillars all over. I didn't know they got that big either, but since I planted it, I'm sure of what it is. Flopping over too, I'll need to stake it so it doesn't get in my lawn mower's path. Maybe bronze grows larger then regular fennel? Swyck |
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In message .com, yue
writes Could anyone let me know how to tell the difference between a dill and fennel plant. I think I have one in the garden with feathery leaves and is about 6 feet tall. I checked some books in the library for both plants' ID but I still can't tell the difference. Please advise. Thanks in advance. Apart from the odour as mentioned elsethread, Stace describes some differences in the stems and fruits Fennel - stems solid at first, becoming +/- hollow; ...; fruits scarcely compressed, c. 2-4x as long as wide, ..., with prominent thick ribs. Dill - stems hollow; ...; fruits strongly dorsally compressed, c. 2x as long as wide, ..., with prominent slender dorsal ridges and conspicuously winged lateral ones. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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