The Probert Encyclopaedia of Nature

PARSLEY

Parsley (Carum Petroselinum) is a biennial herb of the family Umbelliferae with a stout, white, vertical tap root. In the first year it produces a rosette of triangular, tripinnate leaves. In the second year it produces solid, branched stems with alternate, trifoliate, stalked leaves and terminal compound umbels of small, yellowish-green flowers. The fruit is an ovoid double achene which splits into sickle-shaped seeds.
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