The flowers of wild fennel, dried in the sun, give off a fine aroma with a characteristic smell and taste. They are excellent on meat, stir-fried mushrooms, black olives seasoned with orange peel or boiled chestnuts.
Wild fennel is a Mediterranean herbaceous plant of the Apiaceae family. All its parts are used in the kitchen: shoots, leaves, flowers and fruits. It differs from the cultivated variety of fennel, whose edible part is just the white stump.