Samphire, or rock samphire (Crithmum maritimum), the sole species of the genus Crithmum, is an edible wild plant found in coastal regions of mainland Britain. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed typically contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families Apiaceae (carrot family) Araliaceae (ginseng family) Pittosporaceae Griseliniaceae Torriceliaceae The Apiales are an order of flowering plants. ... Genera See text Ref: Hortiplex 2003-11-14 The Apiaceae, the carrot or parsley family, are a family of usually aromatic plants with hollow stems, including parsley, carrot, and other relatives. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ... Carolus Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné ▶(?), and in English usually under the Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of taxonomy. ...

It has fleshy, divided aromatic leaves that have long been regarded as a delicacy in Norfolk and Lancashire. It is now appearing as a garnish in London restaurants. In chemistry, an aromatic molecule is one in which electrons are free to cycle around circular arrangements of atoms, which are alternately singly and doubly bonded to one another. ... In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. ... Norfolk (pronounced NOR-fk) is a low-lying county in East Anglia in the east of southern England. ... Red Lancashire rose Lancashire is a county in the North of England, whose sea-coast lies on the Irish Sea. ... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ...

To prepare it for the table, samphire is trimmed of its hard root, washed and plunged into boiling water for a few minutes. It is often served with a mixture of butter and vinegar but also with butter alone. Butter is commonly sold in sticks, and often served with a special spreading utensil. ... Vinegar is often infused with spices or herbs—as here, with oregano. ...

By dragging it through their teeth like an over-sized thread of floss, diners pull the green flesh from a hard central stalk.

The flavour is highly reminiscent of asparagus, and samphire is sometimes referred to as "poor man's asparagus" (although that name has also been applied to Good King Henry, Hop shoots as well as the leek). Binomial name Asparagus officinalis L. Asparagus is the name of a vegetable obtained from one species within the genus Asparagus, specifically the young shoots of Asparagus officinalis. ... This vegetable has many other names- mercury, lincolnshire spinach, poor mans asparagus and so on, and it has been grown as a vegetable in cottage gardens for hundreds of years. ... Species Humulus lupulus L. Humulus japonicus Siebold & Zucc. ... Leek is a placename in more than one country: Netherlands: Leek, Netherlands United Kingdom: Leek, Staffordshire Leek is also a vegetable: Leek (vegetable) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...