umbellifer การใช้
- The carrot is a biennial plant in the umbellifer family Apiaceae.
- For example, wild umbellifers attract predatory wasps and flies.
- Very tall umbellifers are also common.
- Several species of umbellifer are therefore often grown with tomato plants, including parsley, predatory flies that attack various tomato pests.
- Herbs include wild angelica, marsh valerian and fen bedstraw, and the nationally rare umbellifer Cambridge milk-parsley is also present.
- At this stage, they are often called parsley worms, although they are more likely to eat other plants in the umbellifer family.
- Purn Hill is one of only five British sites for the nationally rare coastal limestone umbellifer species Honewort ( " Trinia glauca " ).
- It is a herbivore and feeds on the roots of such plants as dandelions, umbellifers, chicory and tree seedlings, approaching them from underneath.
- These huge and showy umbellifers have a basal bushy rosette of finely cut glossy dark-green leaves, beetroot-red when they are young.
- The devastating tomato hornworm has a major predator in various parasitic wasps, whose larvae devour the hornworm, but whose adult form drinks nectar from tiny-flowered plants like umbellifers.
- "Cambridge milk parsley " is the common English name of a different plant : " Selinum carvifolia "-also an umbellifer, but belonging to a different genus.
- This harvesting technique, and the product so obtained, very much recall those of two other medicinal umbellifers : " Ferula assa-foetida " and " Dorema ammoniacum ".
- The scent of the roots of Meum has much in common with those of two other edible / medicinal umbellifers : Levisticum officinale and Angelica archangelica, while the aromatic flavour of Meum leaves is somewhat like Melilot ( which owes its aroma of new-mown hay to coumarin ) and is communicated to milk and butter when cows feed on the foliage in Spring.
- Its common name in English is "'Cambridge Milk Parsley "', because it is confined, in the U . K ., to the county of Cambridgeshire and bears some similarity in appearance to Milk Parsley ( " Peucedanum palustre " ), an umbellifer of another genus, but found in similar moist habitats . " S . carvifolia " used also to occur in the English counties of Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire but is now extinct in both.
- He wrote that " the scattered green spots upon the under surface of the wings might have been intended for a rough sketch of the small flowerets of the plant [ an umbellifer ], so close is their mutual resemblance . " He also explained the coloration of sea fish such as the mackerel : " Among pelagic fish it is common to find the upper surface dark-coloured and the lower surface white, so that the animal is inconspicuous when seen either from above or below ."