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Ferula foetida
Also called Asafoetida, Assa Foetida, Kamol, Rochaek, Sassyr
Ferula foetida is a perennial herb in the carrot family, native to Central Asia, eastern Iran, Afghanistan and western Pakistan, best known as the source of the resin called asafoetida. It is a plant of dry, open, desert-edge habitats and is rarely grown as a garden or houseplant.
Ferula foetida is a species of Ferula native to Central Asia (Kyzylkum Desert, Karakum Desert, Turkmenistan), Eastern Iran, western Afghanistan and western Pakistan. It is the most widely distributed species that produces asafoetida. It is often mistaken for the Southern Iranian species F. assa-foetida, for example, in Flora of the U.S.S.R. and Flora of Pakistan.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ferula foetida by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
