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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 is a genus of 18 species [1] of annual plants in the family Ranunculaceae, native to Southern Europe, North Africa, South Asia, Southwest Asia and Middle East. Common names applied to members of this genus are nigella , devil-in-a-bush or love-in-a-mist .
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 damascena, love-in-a-mist, [1] or devil in the bush, [2] is an annual garden flowering plant, belonging to the buttercup family Ranunculaceae.It is native to southern Europe (but adventive in more northern countries of Europe), north Africa and southwest Asia, where it is found on neglected, damp patches of land.
Nigella sativa, black caraway is also called kalonji or nigella, and more common in the Far East, Mideast, Bangladesh, India and Africa. The seeds vary in shape, are pure dark black, with no other visible colors.
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 ]
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