Sison amomum

Sison amomum is one of several species of plant in the genus of Sison, its common name is stone parsley and it is native to Western and Southern Europe, North Africa and Turkey. The species and genus are flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, both of which were first described by Carl Linnaeus, in his book Species Plantarum, originally published in 1753. The plant has many synonyms, having also subsequently been described by other botanists, after Linnaeus, including Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Richard Anthony Salisbury, Conrad Moench, Emanuel Mendes da Costa, and Albert Thellung among others. Stone parsley is an erect hairless plant, and produces a foul odour if crushed. The species usually reaches between 30 and 70 cm (12 and 28 in) in height, although it can grow up to 1 m (3.3 ft). The plant has thin, solid and striated stems which branch profusely and it produces small globular fruit around in 3 mm (0.12 in) diametre. Stone parsley has tiny white flowers, usually 1 to 3 mm (0.039 to ......read more on Wikipedia.