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Pastinaca sativa (Parsnip)
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Order: Apiales > Family: Apiaceae
The Parsnip is a root vegetable, eaten cooked. It is in the
same family as the Carrot (Apiaceae) and like carrots it
is biennial producing a long edible tapering root in its first year and then
flowering the following year. Wild Parsnip is native to central and southern
Europe. The origin and date of domestication of Parsnip is uncertain. It is
thought to have been eaten by the Greeks and Romans but the literature is
difficult to interpret because of the use of terms that might be confused with
Carrot.
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Text by Hamish Robertson |
