Bunium pachypodum P. W. Ball

Spice Image 2 In the field

Family: UMBELLIFERAE (APIACEAE)

Genus: Bunium

Province distribution: Balearic Islands.

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca.

General distribution (Phytogeography): West Mediterranean

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Geophyte.

Habitats: Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones. Cultivated fields.

Characteristics: A perennial plant with rigid, long inflorescences finished in an umbel of small white and shiny flowers. If the plant is not in flower, it can go unrecognized in the grassland. Can be told apart form the rest of the Bunium, as the radi of the the umbels are rigid and thick in frutification. The carpophore also swells and does not separate from the mericarps.