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Skirret
Sium sisarum
About
Sium sisarum, commonly known as skirret, is a perennial plant of the family Apiaceae in the same family as carrots and parsnip. Skirret is grown as a root vegetable. The English name skirret is derived from the Middle English 'skirwhit' or 'skirwort', meaning 'white root'. In Scots it is known as crummock and in Irish as sciréad. Its Danish name sukkerrod, Dutch name suikerwortel and German name "Zuckerwurzel" translate as 'sugar root'.
- Family
- Apiaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Sium sisarum
- Slug
- sium-sisarum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Apiaceae
- Genus
- Sium
- Species
- sisarum
- Wikidata QID
- Q228122
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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