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Daucus edulis

Daucus edulis

Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Cultivation Details

HabitPerennial
Growth—

Daucus edulis is a plant of the subtropics and is not very cold-hardy. It can tolerate short periods with temperatures falling as low as -5°c[1]. Requires a position in full sun in any moderately fertile well-drained soil[1]. A monocarpic species, living for a number of years without flowering and then dying after flowering[1].

Propagation

Seed - we have no information on this species but suggest sowing the seed in a greenhouse as soon as it is ripe if possible, otherwise sow it in early spring. When they are large enough to handle, prick the seedlings out into individual pots and grow them on in the greenhouse for at least their first winter. Plant them out into their permanent positions in late spring or early summer, after the last expected frosts. Cite as: Temperate Plants Database, Ken Fern. temperate.theferns.info. 2026-02-21. <temperate.theferns.info/plant/Daucus+edulis>

Pollinators

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References

  1. [1]The New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. 1992. — Huxley. A. · MacMillan Press · 1992 · ISBN 0-333-47494-5 ↩︎Excellent and very comprehensive, though it contains a number of silly mistakes. Readable yet also very detailed.
  2. [2]IUCN Red List of Threatened Species — http://www.iucnredlist.org/ ↩︎A list of plants under threat and facing possible extinction, usually with brief details of the threats and information on habitat.
  3. [3]Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World. — Hedrick. U. P. · Dover Publications · 1972 · ISBN 0-486-20459-6 ↩︎Lots of entries, quite a lot of information in most entries and references.
  4. [4]RHS Dictionary of Plants plus Supplement. 1956 — F. Chittendon. · Oxford University Press · 1951 · ISBN - ↩︎Comprehensive listing of species and how to grow them. Somewhat outdated, it has been replaced in 1992 by a new dictionary (see [ 200 ]).
  5. [5]Tanaka's Cyclopedia of Edible Plants of the World. — Tanaka. T. & Nakao S. · Keigaku Publishing; Tokyo · 1976 · ISBN - ↩︎The most comprehensive list of edible plants I've come across. Only the briefest entry for each species, though, and some of the entries are more than a little dubious. Not for the casual reader.
  6. [6]The Ethnopharmacology of Madeira and Porto Santo Islands, a review — Rivera, D.; Obon, C. · Journal of Ethnopharmacology 46 · 1995 ↩︎An enumeration of the medicinal plants of Madeira with a table summarizing the species and their uses.
  7. [7]Flavour and Fragrance Journal, Vol. 12, Issue 1. — Figueiredo, C; Barroso, J.G.; Pedro, L.G.; Fontinha, S.S. Et · J. Wiley and Sons. · 1997 ↩︎An article on the essential oil content of Monizia edulis. ; Looman, A;, Scheffer, J.J.C.