Achillea
Achillea
The scientific name is Achillea millefolium (as defined by Linnaeus) and the common name is Achillea or millefolium, and it also has other Greek names depending on the region such as agriapsithia, wormwood, Pisidia, Semesando, Milfeig, Similoudi and Lazarus because with the flowers adorn the children who sing about Lazarus in the villages on Holy Saturday. The English name is Yarrow. In Greece there are 24 varieties of Achilles. It belongs to the composite family (Compositae).
Achillea is cold tolerant, prefers well-drained and sunny soils. It is propagated by seeds in the spring (but this only applies to the main species and not to the hybrids) and by root division. It is mainly threatened by fungi in hot and dry conditions. Its flowers, leaves, seeds and essential oil from the flowers and more rarely from the leaves. Its seeds are somewhat bitter and hot and in cooking they are mostly used cooked.
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