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Anthriscus sylvestris NL: Fluitenkruid /F: Cerfeuil sauvage Wild chervil or cow parsley is found covering wide areas wherever humans have not worked out the land. Leaves and seeds are all edible, raw or cooked and its taste  is stronger than that from garden chervil, similar to carrot leaves. Young leaves taste much milder, somewhat between parsley and fennel. The root is also edible and it is said to be a general tonic, where soaked for several days in rice water (water from washing the rice), and then cooked with other vegetables. This plant has poisonous look-alikes, such as hemlock   ( Conium maculatum or Cicuta spp. ) and fool’s parsley (Aethusa cynapium). One of the distinguishing features between them being that wild chervil has stout, pale green furrowed and slightly hairy stems. In contrast fools' parsley has thin, hairless ribbed and hollow stems.  Hemlock has stout, smooth stems that are often (not always!) purple-spotted. Please, do not count only on these ide...