Does this look like Chervil?
Posted Feb 28, 2020, 10:09 PM UTC
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100% not chervil, parsley or cilantro
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So, eat?
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It's never a good idea to eat something that looks like parsley unless you are absolutely sure. There are plenty of poisonous plants that look very similar, so OP needs to do some research to ensure all of the distinctions can be made.
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My bad, I thought this was r/WhatsThisPlant and I was trolling the ’under no circumstance should you eat an unknown plant!’ Bot....
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I grew chervil last year, I don't think this is it. Leaves in the photo do not look compound enough, there should be at least one extra level of pinnate. Plus chevil has a strong anise\licorice\fennel smell.
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“Am I not chervil-ly enough for the chervil club??? Chervil!!! Chervil!!” :P
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I didn’t notice any purple/red on the stems, so I’m 95% sure it’s not poison hemlock. The stems were slightly fuzzy, and had an indent on the top side.
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Only a 1 in 20 chance of a horrible death!
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Definitely not poison hemlock. There are other species of hemlock too (although I don't think it's those either).
Try posting on r/whatsthisplant
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That is not sure enough!
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There is an easy way to be sure: wait until next year. If no hemlock grows out of this patch or around it, then chances are the same thing will happen next year, and it is much safer in that case.
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Thanks, I omitted it from my meal since I wasn’t sure, and I’ll keep an eye out for flowers and how they look as they grow bigger.
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The leaves towards the bottom look like Herb Robert to me. If you crush it up in your hand it'll smell like burned rubber.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geranium_robertianum?wprov=sfla1
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Looks a lot like herb robert, also known as stinky bob because it smells awful when you rub the leaves
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Looks like fumitory to me (Fumaria sp.)
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No it's not chervil. Looks more like parsley or cilantro than chervil.
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Personally, to me it doesn’t look like parsley or cilantro either
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I’d say it looks more like flat leaf parsley, but the rounded lobes are saying otherwise. 100% not coriander though. Not poison hemlock either
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I've seen this before. Thought this was clovers
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It does. How does it smell?
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Looks like coriander/cilantro to me
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Parsley
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Unless you're really sure on an ID, anything in the carrot family isn't worth messing with.
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Poison hemlock is probably the most concerning, though there are other poisonous plants in that family.
There's also the water hemlocks, water dropworts, and the phytophototoxic species, most famously (and severely) giant hogweed, but also quite a few others like wild parsnip
Apiaceae species can be really hard to distinguish without seeing the flowers and knowing the location.