7THE FRENCH WORD FOR DANDELION is pissenlit – why? HERBAL TRIVIA

Test your knowledge of herbs with these quick-fire questions.

Question 7

1WHAT DOES IT MEAN IF a plant’s species name ends in officinalis?

2WHICH FOUR HERBS

are mentioned in the song Scarborough Fair?

3WHAT LEAFY

HERB from South America is considered to be 200 times sweeter than sugar yet with no calories?

4WHICH HERB HAS

POPULAR types that include spear, apple and garden?

5IN THE TELEVISION

PROGRAMME Fawlty Towers what was the name of the owner of a hotel in Torquay, Devon, who shared his name with a culinary herb?

6NAME THE BLUE

FLOWERED HERB from the mint family that cats can’t get enough of. 8ISATIS

TINCTORIA, RESEDA LUTEA and Potentilla erecta are all plants grown historically for what purpose?

9WHAT

IS THE NAME of the aromatic flower and berry that are produced from Sambucus nigra and used to make cordials and country wines? 10NAME THE SPICE that is often referred to as poor man’s saffron.

11WHICH TWO

RELATED edible crops are most susceptible to blight?

12WHAT CROP HAS VARIETIES that share their names with an ancient city in Israel and the shape of the world?

13WHAT VEGETABLE SHARES part of its common name with the capital of Belgium?

14WHICH MEMBER OF THE CABBAGE FAMILY HAS A VARIETY THAT PRODUCES STEMS so big and sturdy that they’ve been used as walking sticks, particularly on the Channel Islands?

15THE IROQUOIS PEOPLE (NATIVE NORTH AMERICANS) DEVELOPED A GROWING TECHNIQUE using three vegetables called the Three Sisters system. Which three vegetables were they?