Florence fennel

See fennel.

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Florence fennel

(Plants) another name for finocchio

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Noun	1.	Florence fennel - grown especially for its edible aromatic bulbous stem base Foeniculum dulce, Foeniculum vulgare dulce finocchio, Florence fennel, fennel - aromatic bulbous stem base eaten cooked or raw in salads fennel - any of several aromatic herbs having edible seeds and leaves and stems
	2.	Florence fennel - aromatic bulbous stem base eaten cooked or raw in salads finocchio, fennel veg, vegetable, veggie - edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant Florence fennel, Foeniculum dulce, Foeniculum vulgare dulce - grown especially for its edible aromatic bulbous stem base

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Florence fennel: This aniseed-flavoured veg with a swollen white bulb-like base is delicious used raw in salads or roasted in the oven.

Choosing right veg for your garden skills

As you might guess, a vegetable called Florence fennel is popular in Italy.

Experiment in the kitchen with Florence fennel from the garden

Fresh fennel, also known as Sweet Anise, Finnochio, Florentine Fennel, and Florence Fennel is an aromatic vegetable, garnish, and flavoring.

Quick & Easy Fennel Dishes

Top performers include Carrots Paris Atlas and Amsterdam Forcing 3, Lettuce Barcelona, Tomato Roma and Florence Fennel.

GREEN SCENE

Other seeds being sown now - hollyhocks, sweet williams, wallflowers and vegetables such as Chinese greens and Florence fennel - don't suffer from thermodormancy and will emerge quickly.

THE OUTSIDERS; The Royal Horticultural Society offers these practical tips to help your plot stay healthy in the fierce summer heat

ON THE MENU In the conservatory restaurant - kitted out with a delightful mish-mash of furniture and cutlery - pork dishes like saddleback crackling piggy bits ([euro]5) and roast Purbeck Pork Chop ([euro]23) were a given, but I loved my Lyme Bay plaice ([euro]19) with Florence fennel plucked from the hotel's kitchen garden.

HOTEL PIG ON THE BEACH STUDLAND, DORSET

The other kind of fennel--which also has ferny tops, only shorter--is known as Florence fennel, bulb fennel, cultivated fennel or sweet fennel.

Beautiful bulbs: growing and cooking fennel and scallions: invite fennel's refreshing anise flavor and scallions' allium zing to your summer table

Carrots and parsnips are the well-known roots in this family, along with the vegetables celery and Florence fennel, and herbs and spices such as parsley, dill, fennel, lovage, cumin, coriander, chervil, caraway, anise and asafoetida.

How the carrot became domesticated: origins of root vegetable are fairly clear, while the history of its cultivation is still a bit cloudy

Sowing date, plant density and crowing cutting on yield and quality of Florence fennel seed.

Effect of Sowing date on the yield, yield components and essential oil content of three population of Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare mill.)

Beetroot, spinach, Florence fennel, Kale 'Cavolo Nero', an old variety, watercress and 'Banana' shallots, a seed-sown variety producing a single large bulb with a strong flavour, all fared well, producing harvests which were much more economical than buying from supermarkets.

Grow a taste of the exotic; Is it worth growing gourmet vegetables or are you better off buying them in the shops? Hannah Stephenson looks at new trials to find out

Beetroot, spinach, Florence fennel, Kale 'Cavolo Nero', an old variety, watercress and 'Banana' shallots, a seed-sown variety producing a single large bulb with a very strong flavour, all fared well in the trial, producing harvests which were much more economical than buying the produce from supermarkets.

Gourmet crops on a budget; Is it worth growing gourmet vegetables or are you better off buying them in the shops? HANNAH STEPHENSON looks at new trials to find out