Bronze Fennel 'Rubrum'

Please tell me if the Bronze Fennel is edible. Regular Fennel is the finish for spaghetti. Not spaghetti without it.

I...Read More did not know Bronze is edible.

Self seeds here , left the seeds last year to fall where there may . They did and plants of this are everywhere.

I have this growing in my butterfly garden and it creates a beautiful, billowy bronze-rose 'cloud' in the garden and is consistently cove...Read Morered with swallowtail caterpillars through the summer. It has already started returning this year in early March and will no doubt grow even taller this year than last when it reached over five feet tall. I love it.

Bronze color to leaves add winter interest--caterpillars of various species love this plant and I grow it to provide "fodder" for the cat...Read Mores and to lure them away from more valuable plants in the landscape. I overwinter the plant and it will often go dormat in the height of summer but will re-emerge when temperatures cool in the fall. It is a perennial here in the south.

Fennel is a hardy relative of dill, coriander, cumin, anise, carrot, and Queen Anne's lace; it grows very well in the south.
Bronze leaf fennel is probably the most difficult to grow in the south but is beautiful and well worth the effort. Most fennels grow from between 3'-5' when in bloom. Once seeds are harvested, cut the bloom stalks down to the ground and new growth comes quickly. Fennel is very drought tolerant and hardy, but a little water improves its flavor.

Fennel is the important "something" added to many sausages and is also used with fish. Fish is excellent grilled over fennel stalks with butter.Its also good in salads. The odor of fennel is warm, sweet, and fragrant. All fennels have the familiar anise flavor with varying degrees of sweetness, depending on the amount of oils present. Fennel releases its oils well in water but more freely in alchohol. This accounts for its presence in so many fine liquors.