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Nigella in full bloom Blue Nigella. Several species are grown as ornamental plants in gardens. Nigella damascena has been grown in English cottage gardens since the Elizabethan era, commonly called love-in-a-mist. Nigella hispanica is a taller species with larger blue flowers, red stamens, and grey leaves. Nigella seeds are self-sowing if the ...
The genus name Nigella is a diminutive of the Latin niger "black", referring to the seed color. [6] [7] The specific epithet sativa means "cultivated".[6]In English, Nigella sativa and its seed are variously called black caraway, black seed, black cumin, fennel flower, nigella, nutmeg flower, Roman coriander, [3] [6] black onion seed [8] and kalonji.
Nigella Lawson was born in 1960 in Wandsworth, London, [4] one of the daughters of Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby (1932–2023), [5] a business and finance journalist who later became a Conservative MP and Chancellor of the Exchequer in Margaret Thatcher's government, and his first wife, Vanessa Salmon (1936–1985), [6] a socialite [7] and the heiress to the J. Lyons and Co. fortune. [8]
Nigella hispanica, the Spanish fennel flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to Portugal, Spain, and France. [1] An annual or biennial reaching 60 cm (2 ft), the Royal Horticultural Society considers it a good plant to attract pollinators.
Nigella arvensis, the field nigella or wild fennel flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae. [2] It is native to North Africa, central, southern and eastern Europe, the Caucasus region, and the Middle East as far as Iran, and has gone extinct in Switzerland and Crete. [1]
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Nigella, a genus of about 14 species of annual plants in the family Ranunculaceae, particularly Nigella sativa, the seeds of which are used as a culinary spice; Nigella damascena, (Love-in-a-mist), grown in gardens as an ornamental plant
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