Dill leaf EO Organic
Origin: Spain

• Details and product description

  Introduction:

  Very aromatic annual plant 0.5 to 1 m high. Its spiral root, spindly, tapered, whitish and little split rises to a dark-green stalk, hollow, erect, cylindrical, finely fluted with white furrows. The stalk ramifies at the top. The feathery leaves are alternate, pennaceous 3 to 4 times and the lower leaves are petiolate, the upper are connected to the stalk by a wide sheath. At the top of stalks, umbels able to reach 15 cm in diameter, having 30 to 50 furrows. The small hermaphrodite flowers (April - July) have 5 bright yellow petals. Fruits grow 2 by 2 in oval-shaped achenes with 5 ribs and are flat as lentils. They are ochre to brown-red with a fine yellowish border. Some chemotypes, for example English and Spanish dill seed EO contain phellandrenes, which are not present in German dill EO. Other species : Anethum sowa DC. (India dill of which EO contains 40% dillapiol and is very low in carvone).

  History:

  It has been known since antiquity and appears in most of the ancient texts and even in the gospel according to Saint Mathew. It says that during the first century AD, it was the object of a tax as was cumin and mint. Ancient Greeks used it to combat hiccoughs and Roman gladiators rubbed their limbs with it before fighting. The word "graveolens" comes from "grave" = strongly and "olens" = nice-smelling. The name dill is said to have come from the Old Norse word "dilla" meaning to lull, an indication as to the properties of the herb; dill water was given to babies to sooth them.

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