The Caraway Biennial Plant

Caraway (Carum carvi) is a biennial plant that belongs to the floral display family (Apiaceae or Umbelliferae). The plant in the wild in western Asia, Europe and North Africa, where he pastures, roadsides and embankments grows. The plant is also called real caraway.

The plant is 30-60 cm tall and thin, oblong-oval, bi-pinnate leaves. The plant is a taproot.

Caraway flowers in May and June. The umbels are compound screens that consist of five to sixteen rays, which groups small, white to pink flowers. On the screens are zero to three omwindselbladen and leaves. The fruit is a two-part split fruit.

The seeds are 3-4 mm long and egg-laying crescent-shaped and have a pleasant spicy flavor, especially from carvone and limonene. In the Netherlands, caraway seed produced, allegedly of very high quality. The bulk of production is exported to Germany and Austria.

Caraway is often confused with caraway, partly because of the great similarity in taste and looks, but also because of the names in many languages under consideration. Many (online) dictionaries translate the names, therefore, simply wrong, or both as the same. In the Netherlands, caraway seed, also called "wild cumin" mentioned.

Caraway is slightly curved, while cumin seeds straight. By the agreement in taste (hot, spicy, anise-like) are both herbs in dishes or as a substitute for another use, but the flavor of caraway is roughly twice as fast as cumin, and therefore caraway in about half the quantity of cumin applied. Aside from the strength of the taste is slightly sharper caraway, cumin while what is bitter.



Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echte_karwij

See also: International Flower Delivery, Florist