"Common in the Holy land, the plant was used as early as 1550 B.C. for culinary and medicinal purposes. This is substantiated by records of the papyrus of Ebers and in the writings of Cato and Pliny" (Walker).
Description- The plant grows to a height of 2 feet with a spread of 9 inches. The bright, green leaves are fan shaped and become more feathery towards the top of the plant. The flowers, which bloom from mid to late summer, are small and white, formed in umbel-like clusters. The pale brown roots are fiberous and tapering, shaped like a carrot.
Cultivation- Corriander will not grow well in humid climates. It needs a dry summer and a sunny location. Seeds are sown directly in the garden once all danger of frost has passed. It also does well as a container plant on a sunny porch or balcony. Stems are weak and the plant may require staking.
Harvesting- Cut the leaves as required. Coriander is used widely in Indian, Greek and Asian cooking
Exodus 16:31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
Numbers 11:6-9 But now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes. And the manna was as coriander seed... And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat in a mortar and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it; and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil. And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.
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