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Bunium bulbocastanum

  • Perennial
Home Perennial Bunium bulbocastanum

Rough grassland and banks on chalk.

Family: Apiaceae
Height: 0.6 m / 2 ft
Sun
Light, Medium and Heavy Soil
Moist

Plant Rating

Edible Uses: 4 of 5
Medicinal Uses: 1 of 5
Other Uses: 0 of 5

Native Habitat

Pig Nut, Earth-nut Bunium bulbocastanum native habitat is Rough grassland and banks on chalk.

Edible Uses

Root - raw or cooked. A delicious taste very much like sweet chestnuts when cooked, but the tubers are very small and fiddly to harvest. Seed and flowers. Used as a flavouring, they are a cumin substitute. Leaves - raw or cooked. They are used as a garnish and a flavouring in much the same way as parsley.

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