Tordylium aegaeum

Runemark

Apiaceae Edible: Leaves 18 iNaturalist observations

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Description

An herb in the carrot family (Apiaceae) found in temperate regions. The leaves are edible.

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Edible Uses

Tordylium apulum, the Mediterranean hartwort or Roman pimpernel, is used as a vegetable in Greece and as a flavouring in Italy. Tordylium officinale, the Officinal or Cretan hartwort (also a Mediterranean species), bears fruit formerly used as an emmenagogue, and the plant (plant part unspecified) has formed one of the ingredients of Theriac, a preparation believed to be an antidote to snake and other venoms. Courchet further states of the genus Tordylium in general that the various species bear fruits that—like those of many other Umbellifers—are aromatic and carminative, but that those of Tordylium are seldom used.