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    UMBELLIFERS

    Apr 27, 2021 4 minutes
    WORDS MARINA CHRISTOPHER
    PHOTOGRAPHS ANNAÏCK GUITTENY

    The Apiaceae family is so vast no single feature could do it justice, so here I’m going to concentrate on one subfamily: Apioideae, familiar to many in the forms of vegetables such as carrots, herbs including dill and coriander, and the frothy mass of small white f lowers that wave aloft over ferny green foliage along hedgerows. This diaphanous haze is the f lowering peak of the humble cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris), sometimes referred to as Queen Anne’s lace.

    All are known as umbellifers, characterised by the formation of their flowers in umbels (meaning umbrella-like), a flat-topped inflorescence supported by a pedicel (a stem supporting a flower or seed),

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