Daucus

The name 'Carrot' is Celtic, and means 'red of colour,' and Daucus from the Greek dais to burn, signifying its pungent and stimulating qualities.

Find Me A Cure 2009

My other half has often said, and I readily concur, that it's all a marketing exercise dreamed up by greetings cards manufacturers, chocolatiers and florists ... and the occasional purveyor of the genus Daucus.

When you forget to send a card. . . EliRabett 2010

I have tried to move the Daucus with poor results, it has a carrot like tap root.

Updates And A New Fairest Of The Faire « Fairegarden 2010

Last year the dried Daucus seed heads were scattered in the area and we are pleased to announce that babies are now showing.

Updates And A New Fairest Of The Faire « Fairegarden 2010

There were cormorants, gulls, rabbits, ladybugs (ladybug sex, even), ripe red hips on the beach roses, beautiful green-white thickets of Queen Anne's Lace (Daucus carota).

Not with a bang, but a flood of white noise. blu_muse 2008

Base notes: Daucus accord, Eau de vie de Cognac, Mace.

DSH Perfumes Part Five: Palace of The Sun King (And a Prize Draw) Marina Geigert 2009

Base notes: Daucus accord, Eau de vie de Cognac, Mace.

Archive 2009-03-01 Marina Geigert 2009

In drier areas and on the well drained ridges are associations of Hordeum maritimum with Lolium multiflorum and Daucus carota or Nerium oleander and Ziziphus lotus.

Ichkeul National Park, Tunisia 2008

Heywood, V.H. Relationships and evolution in the Daucus carota complex.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

Carrot Cultivated carrots are swollen taproots of the species Daucus carota, which arose in the Mediterranean region.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004